DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Interbase vs. Newts vs. RocksDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Interbase vs. Newts vs. RocksDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Secondary database models

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Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

opennms.github.io/newts

rocksdb.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Embarcadero

OpenNMS Group

Facebook, Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2016

1984

2014

2013

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Interbase Change Views

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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