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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm vs. SWC-DB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.progress.com/­openedgerealm.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperIBMProgress Software CorporationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Alex Kashirin
Initial release20162017198420142020
Current release2.0OpenEdge 12.2, March 20200.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnoyesyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groupsyes

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