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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OushuDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Microsoft

Oushu

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2010

2011

Current release

V12

4.0.1, August 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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