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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GBase vs. GridGain vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GBase vs. GridGain vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.gbase.cnwww.gridgain.comterminusdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GridGain Systems, Inc.DataChemist Ltd.Oracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20162004200720181998
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cGridGain 8.5.111.0.0, January 2023Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial, open sourceOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, Java, PythonJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxIBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesPL/SQL
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyes (replicated cache)Journaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
Role-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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