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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. ObjectBox vs. RisingWave vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#237	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.risingwave.com/database

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.objectbox.io

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

RisingWave Labs

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2016

2017

2022

2014

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

1.2, September 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Rust

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

UDFs in Python or Java

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

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

Users and Roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

MongoDB Realm & Device Sync alternatives – ObjectBox
17 September 2024

Local AI – what it is and why we need it
11 September 2024

First on-device Vector Database (aka Semantic Index) for iOS
24 July 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases: Expanding AI Capabilities
18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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20 January 2022, Open Source For You

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