DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Sqrrl vs. TimesTen vs. Valentina Server vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Sqrrl vs. TimesTen vs. Valentina Server vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Object-relational database and reports server

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

sqrrl.com

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

www.valentina-db.net

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Paradigma Software

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2016

2012

1998

1999

2009

Current release

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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