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Name

Description

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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Spatial extension of H2

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

CNRS

Initial release

2016

2013

2001

Current release

1.2, November 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on H2

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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