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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SpaceTime vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

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.

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

rethinkdb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

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

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

rethinkdb.com/docs

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

Developer

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Mireo

Oracle

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

Initial release

2016

2009

2020

1998

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C#
C++
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

range based

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

users and table-level permissions

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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