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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. HyperSQL

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hsqldb.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Google

Initial release

2016

2010

2001

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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