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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Ignite vs. RavenDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

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

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

ignite.apache.org

ravendb.net

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

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

ravendb.net/docs

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Hibernating Rhinos

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2015

2010

1987

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

5.4, July 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++, Java, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Authorization levels configured per client per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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