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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. MonetDB vs. mSQL vs. TerarkDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. MonetDB vs. mSQL vs. TerarkDB vs. Vitess

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.monetdb.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbvitess.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperMonetDB BVHughes TechnologiesByteDance, originally TerarkThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20162004199420162013
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20234.4, October 202115.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCCC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Rnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
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-standardnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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