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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. H2GIS vs. HyperSQL vs. Trino

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

CNRS

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2013

2001

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Java, SQL

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on H2

none

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

SQL standard access control

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News

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12 September 2024

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22 August 2024

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1 August 2024

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11 July 2024

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20 January 2022, Open Source For You

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BigchainDB: A Popular and Powerful Database for Blockchain
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