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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Sequoiadb vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

machbase.com/dbms

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Machbase

Sequoiadb Ltd.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

2013

2010

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple password-based access control

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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