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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. RDF4J vs. TimesTen vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

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

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.

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

rdf4j.org

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

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

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

rdf4j.org/documentation

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

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

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

Oracle

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

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2004

1998

2019

Current release

Release 22.1

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

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

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

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

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

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

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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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