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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HarperDB vs. Interbase vs. Newts vs. VelocityDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.harperdb.iowww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseopennms.github.io/­newtsvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikivelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperHarperDBEmbarcaderoOpenNMS GroupVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20162017198420142011
Current release3.1, August 2021InterBase 2020, December 20197.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonNode.jsCJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoJSON data typesyesyesyes
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 infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenono
TriggersnoyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedInterbase Change Viewsselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes, using LMDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoBased on Windows Authentication

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