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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HBase vs. Valentina Server vs. XTDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableObject-relational database and reports serverA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
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
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comhbase.apache.orgwww.valentina-db.netgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthbase.apache.org/­book.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.phpwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetParadigma SoftwareJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2016200819992019
Current release2.3.4, January 20215.7.51.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ODBCHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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