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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GBase vs. Realm vs. Riak TS

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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.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.gbase.cn

realm.io

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

realm.io/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2004

2014

2015

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C, Java, Python

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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 capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

yes

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