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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Memcached vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.memcached.org

www.sqlite.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transwarp

Initial release

2016

2003

2000

Current release

1.6.29, June 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

via file-system locks

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

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

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