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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. RavenDB vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

ravendb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

ravendb.net/docs

help.sap.com/hana

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Hibernating Rhinos

SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2010

2018

Current release

5.4, July 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes

Role-based access control

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