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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. JaguarDB vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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Name

Hyprcubd 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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#14	Vector DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.jaguardb.com

sphinxsearch.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Hyprcubd, Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2015

2001

1987

Current release

3.3 July 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Python

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (https)

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

token access

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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