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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HBase vs. Memcached vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. TimesTen

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#205  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comhbase.apache.orgwww.memcached.orgwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042docs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalTencentOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20162008200320131998
Current release2.3.4, January 20211.6.25, March 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavanoyesPL/SQL
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesnoyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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