DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza 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

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.52
Rank	#114	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

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

yanza.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

Spotify

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Yanza

Initial release

2016

2014

1994

2015

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Timer and event based

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

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

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