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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HarperDB vs. SiriDB vs. STSdb vs. TimesTen

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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.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.harperdb.io

siridb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.siridb.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

HarperDB

Cesbit

STS Soft SC

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2017

2011

1998

Current release

3.1, August 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Node.js

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

Numeric data

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

HTTP API

.NET Client API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

PL/SQL

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes, using LMDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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