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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. Heroic

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	2.13
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.bigchaindb.com

www.citusdata.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.citusdata.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Spotify

Initial release

2012

2016

2010

2014

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

8.1, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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