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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 persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Facebook, Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2016

2012

2013

2020

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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