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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Hive vs. LevelDB vs. OrientDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

hive.apache.org

github.com/google/leveldb

orientdb.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Google

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2012

2011

2010

2000

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

1.23, February 2021

3.2.29, March 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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 DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Java, Javascript

Triggers

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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