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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hive vs. Hyprcubd vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hive vs. Hyprcubd vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopServerless Time Series DBMSDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSearch engine
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablehive.apache.orghyprcubd.com (offline)www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperGoogleApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHyprcubd, Inc.Transwarp
Initial release201620152012
Current release3.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
gRPC (https)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolestoken access

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