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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. jBASE vs. RDF4J vs. Realm vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

rdf4j.org

realm.io

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

rdf4j.org/documentation

realm.io/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2016

1991

2004

2014

2013

Current release

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

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

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

simple password-based access control

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