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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HyperSQL vs. ToroDB vs. XTDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

hsqldb.org

github.com/torodb/server

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

8Kdata

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2001

2016

2019

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

All OS with a Java 7 VM

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

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

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

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