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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. H2 vs. RethinkDB vs. RRDtool

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

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
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.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.h2database.comrethinkdb.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperThomas MuellerThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Tobias Oetiker
Initial release2016200520091999
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.4.1, August 20201.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryNumeric data only
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.nononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaC 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
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
TriggersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding inforange basednone
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 databaseSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCC basedyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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