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

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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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

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

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Sequoiadb Ltd.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2005

2013

2018

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

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

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Graph 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

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

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

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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