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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. InfinityDB vs. jBASE vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

boilerbay.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2016

2002

1991

2004

Current release

4.0

5.7

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

optional

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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