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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. LeanXcale vs. MaxDB vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. LeanXcale vs. MaxDB vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.leanxcale.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

LeanXcale

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2016

2015

1984

2012

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Python

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

yes

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.

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

no

Triggers

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

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