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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. H2 vs. Sequoiadb vs. SiteWhere vs. TimesTen

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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.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.h2database.com

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Sequoiadb Ltd.

SiteWhere

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2005

2013

2010

1998

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

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

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

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

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

ACID

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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