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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Hypertable vs. Riak KV vs. RisingWave vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Hypertable vs. Riak KV vs. RisingWave vs. TimesTen

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLAn 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 storeWide column storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.61
Rank#237  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperHypertable Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesRisingWave LabsOracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20162009200920221998
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20163.2.0, December 20221.2, September 2023Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++ErlangRust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Docker
Linux
macOS
IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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 indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
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
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangUDFs in Python or JavaPL/SQL
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyes, using Riak SecurityUsers and Rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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