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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. HBase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison
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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column storeWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.89
Rank#105  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score31.25
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score4.92
Rank#73  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcloud.google.com/­spannerhbase.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperGoogleApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMicrosoft
Initial release2016201720082012
Current release2.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptions 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 indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nono
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
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)optimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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