DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. Machbase Neo

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

hazelcast.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

jsqldb.org (offline)

machbase.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Hazelcast

Spotify

Konrad von Backstrom

Machbase

Initial release

2016

2008

2014

2018

2013

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

0.8, December 2018

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free test 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

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Replicated Map

yes

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

using RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

yes

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

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