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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. VoltDB

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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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

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

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

McObject

Sequoiadb Ltd.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

2001

2013

2010

Current release

8.2, 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

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++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Java

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

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

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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 and roles with access to stored procedures

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customers

Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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