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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Widely used in-process key-value store

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Search engine

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#130	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

hsqldb.org

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

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

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

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Transwarp

Initial release

2016

2001

1994

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

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

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

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

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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