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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HBase vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

hbase.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

hbase.apache.org/book.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2008

2014

2007

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial

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

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

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

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JavaScript API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

JavaScript

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

atomic operations within a single collection possible

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

optionally

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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