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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Kingbase vs. MonetDB vs. TimesTen vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Kingbase vs. MonetDB vs. TimesTen vs. VelocityDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.44
Rank#258  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.kingbase.com.cnwww.monetdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.MonetDB BVOracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20161999200419982011
Current releaseV8.0, August 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023Release 22.17.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and JavaCC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, RPL/SQLno
TriggersyesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding via remote tablesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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