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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. ObjectBox vs. TimesTen vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

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

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

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

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#362	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.objectbox.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Transwarp

Initial release

2016

2017

1998

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

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++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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17 September 2024

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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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