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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Riak KV vs. Solr vs. SurrealDB vs. TimesTen

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comsolr.apache.orgsurrealdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software FoundationSurrealDB LtdOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20162009200620221998
Current release3.2.0, December 20229.6.1, May 2024v1.5.0, May 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonErlangJavaRust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesrestrictedyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangJava pluginsPL/SQL
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, using Riak Securityyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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