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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Greenplum vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Greenplum vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Memcached

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgreenplum.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.memcached.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.greenplum.orggithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.IBMDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release2016200520142003
Current release7.0.0, September 20231.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2no infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPL/SQL, SQL PLno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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