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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Hive vs. NuoDB vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comhive.apache.orgwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseprometheus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedoc.nuodb.comprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.quasardb
Initial release20162012201320152009
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++GoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binary
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceJava, SQLnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factoryes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infotunable commit protocolnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTemporary tablenoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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