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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. RethinkDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.h2database.comrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperThomas MuellerHypertable Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2016200520092009
Current release2.2.220, July 20230.9.8.11, March 20162.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
TriggersyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMVCC based
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infousers and table-level permissions

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