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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Interbase vs. MySQL vs. Snowflake vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Widely used open source RDBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.mysql.com

www.snowflake.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Embarcadero

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2016

1984

1995

2014

2020

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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