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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GridGain vs. HyperSQL vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.gridgain.com

hsqldb.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

2016

2007

2001

2020

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial, open source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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