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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GridGain vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GridGain vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb vs. Trafodion

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.gridgain.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/quasar.aitrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.quasar.ai/­mastertrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Circonus LLC.quasardbApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162007201720092014
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1V0.10.20, January 20183.14.1, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, C++, .NetC and C++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes, in LuanoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes (replicated cache)configurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nowith Hadoop integrationyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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