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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP HANA vs. SQL.JS

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud servicePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.monetdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlsql.js.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlhelp.sap.com/­hanasql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperMonetDB BVOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)SAPAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20162004198420102012
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20237.4.1.1, 20212.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languagePythonCJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMSAppliance or cloud-serviceserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RSQLScript, Rno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno

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