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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. H2GIS vs. HarperDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Spatial extension of H2

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.h2gis.org

www.harperdb.io

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.harperdb.io/docs

Developer

CNRS

HarperDB

8Kdata

Initial release

2016

2013

2017

2016

Current release

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Node.js

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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 data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on H2

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

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

yes, using LMDB

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

based on H2

Access rights for users and roles

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