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

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

An 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 model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.gbase.cn

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

terminusdb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

DataChemist Ltd.

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2004

2018

1998

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.5, January 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C, Java, Python

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

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 languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Journaling Streams

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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