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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. H2GIS vs. Hazelcast vs. Lovefield vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.h2gis.org

hazelcast.com

google.github.io/lovefield

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

CNRS

Hazelcast

Google

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2016

2013

2008

2014

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

JavaScript

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Events

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on H2

yes

Replicated Map

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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