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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. OrientDB vs. Riak KV vs. TimesTen vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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.

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#338	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

orientdb.org

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

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

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

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Oracle

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

Ultipa

Initial release

2016

2010

2009

1998

2019

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X

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

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

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

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

Erlang

PL/SQL

Triggers

Hooks

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

links between data sets can be stored

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

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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