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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. MaxDB vs. OpenQM vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

maxdb.sap.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

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

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

1984

1993

2011

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.4-12

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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