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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Valentina Server vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

Object-relational database and reports server

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

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

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

www.valentina-db.net

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

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Paradigma Software

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

1994

1999

2019

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

5.7.5

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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