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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. HyperSQL vs. MonetDB vs. RocksDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HyperSQL vs. MonetDB vs. RocksDB vs. TimesTen

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA relational database management system that stores data in columnsEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score3.14
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comhsqldb.orgwww.monetdb.orgrocksdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperMonetDB BVFacebook, Inc.Oracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20162001200420131998
Current release2.7.2, June 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 20239.4.0, June 2024Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxIBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLyes, in SQL, C, RnoPL/SQL
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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