DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.sqlite.org

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

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Sequoiadb Ltd.

SiteWhere

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

2016

2013

2010

2000

1998

Current release

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Public Domain

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++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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