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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimesTen vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimesTen vs. TypeDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA multi-model DBMS and application serverNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleTypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  Object oriented DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.sequoiadb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmltypedb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.intersystems.comwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1typedb.com/­docs
DeveloperInterSystemsSequoiadb Ltd.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Vaticle
Initial release20161997201319982016
Current release2018.1.4, May 202011 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)2.28.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJavaScriptPL/SQLno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneno
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication via raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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BigchainDBInterSystems CachéSequoiadbTimesTenTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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