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

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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.

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.gbase.cn

terminusdb.com

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

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

DataChemist Ltd.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2016

2004

2018

1998

2001

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

11.0.0, January 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Docker
Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

by using the Octo plugin

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)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

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

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

yes

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

optimistic locking

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

yes

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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