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

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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.

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.h2database.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Tobias Oetiker

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2005

1999

2013

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

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

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library
Pipes

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

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

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

simple password-based access control

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