DBMS > BigchainDB vs. InfinityDB vs. MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. InfinityDB vs. MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. Solr

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

dev.mysql.com/doc

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2002

1995

2013

2006

Current release

4.0

8.4.0, April 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

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)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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