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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Lovefield vs. RRDtool vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Lovefield vs. RRDtool vs. Trafodion

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA widely adopted in-memory data gridEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comhazelcast.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtooltrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doctrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperHazelcastGoogleTobias OetikerApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162008201419992014
Current release5.3.6, November 20232.1.12, February 20171.8.0, 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaScriptC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariHP-UX
Linux
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScriptC infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesnonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infoEventsUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infoReplicated Mapnonenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole-based access controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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