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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HBase vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL vs. QuestDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableOracles in-memory data grid solutionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comhbase.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.postgres-xl.orgquestdb.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOracleQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2016200820072014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2014
Current release2.3.4, January 202114.1, August 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaCJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javanouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infoLive Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)configurableACID infoMVCCACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infooptionallyyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BigchainDBHBaseOracle CoherencePostgres-XLQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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