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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Postgres-XL vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

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

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2016

2000

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2001

Current release

15.5, September 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

optimistic locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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