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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OpenEdge vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.progress.com/openedge

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2012

1984

2019

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

close to SQL 92

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Users and groups

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