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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. JaguarDB vs. Netezza vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#14	Vector DBMS

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.jaguardb.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

IBM

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2016

2015

2000

1994

Current release

3.3 July 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Linux

included in appliance

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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