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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Hypertable vs. Interbase vs. Newts vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

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Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

opennms.github.io/newts

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Embarcadero

OpenNMS Group

Transwarp

Initial release

2016

2009

1984

2014

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor on file system level

Interbase Change Views

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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

yes

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