DBMS > BigchainDB vs. H2 vs. Linter vs. RisingWave vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. H2 vs. Linter vs. RisingWave vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

RDBMS for high security requirements

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#368	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#237	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.h2database.com

linter.ru

www.risingwave.com/database

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Thomas Mueller

relex.ru

RisingWave Labs

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2005

1990

2022

2000

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

1.2, September 2023

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and Roles

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