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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Hypertable vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. VoltDB

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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

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Search engine

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Transwarp

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

2009

2010

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Snapshots and command logging

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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