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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. H2 vs. ReductStore vs. RocksDB

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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.

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.h2database.com

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.reduct.store/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Thomas Mueller

ReductStore LLC

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2005

2023

2013

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

1.9, March 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

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

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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

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

yes

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

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