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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. mSQL vs. openGauss

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  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.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServermSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#175  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.gbase.cnazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.MicrosoftHughes TechnologiesHuawei and openGauss community
Initial release20162004201019942019
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cV124.4, October 20213.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonC, Java, PythonC++CC, C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsTransact SQLnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyes, with always 3 replicas availablenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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