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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HBase vs. Manticore Search vs. MySQL

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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

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

hbase.apache.org/book.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Manticore Software

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

2008

2017

1995

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

6.0, February 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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