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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. H2 vs. HBase vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. H2 vs. HBase vs. Titan

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.h2database.comhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperGoogleThomas MuellerApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20162017200520082012
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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