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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. HBase vs. LevelDB vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HBase vs. LevelDB vs. OpenTSDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbopentsdb.net
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetGooglecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2016200820112011
Current release2.3.4, January 20211.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROnonumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnono

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