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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Infobright vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

origodb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2005

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2019

Current release

4.4, October 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Write ahead log

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Role based authorization

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