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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. JSqlDb vs. LeanXcale vs. MonetDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#286	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.leanxcale.com

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

LeanXcale

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2016

2018

2015

2004

Current release

0.8, December 2018

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
Java
Scala

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

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

using RocksDB

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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