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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Galaxybase vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

galaxybase.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2017

1991

2014

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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