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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GridDB vs. MonetDB vs. mSQL vs. TerarkDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataA relational database management system that stores data in columnsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgriddb.netwww.monetdb.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.griddb.netwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperToshiba CorporationMonetDB BVHughes TechnologiesByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20162013200419942016
Current release5.1, August 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 20234.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++CCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Rnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding via remote tablesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelACIDnono
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono
More information provided by the system vendor
BigchainDBGridDBMonetDBmSQL infoMini SQLTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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