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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Postgres-XL

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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.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.h2database.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2005

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
macOS

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

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

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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