DBMS > BigchainDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

realm.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

McObject

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2001

2014

2013

1992

Current release

8.2, 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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