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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HBase vs. MaxDB vs. Newts vs. RocksDB

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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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

hbase.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

opennms.github.io/newts

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

hbase.apache.org/book.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

OpenNMS Group

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2008

1984

2014

2013

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP REST
Java API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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