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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HarperDB vs. LevelDB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Ultra-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.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.harperdb.io

github.com/google/leveldb

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.harperdb.io/docs

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

HarperDB

Google

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2016

2017

2011

2006

Current release

3.1, August 2021

1.23, February 2021

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Node.js

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
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

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes, using LMDB

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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