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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Hazelcast vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#191	Overall
	#30	Document stores

Score	9.09
Rank	#47	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.75
Rank	#194	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

hazelcast.com

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Hazelcast

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2016

2008

2017

Current release

4.1.1, December 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

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

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
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

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

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Replicated Map

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

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

Role-based access control

yes

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