DBMS > BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. GridGain vs. Newts vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. GridGain vs. Newts vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

bigobject.io

www.gridgain.com

opennms.github.io/newts

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.bigobject.io

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

OpenNMS Group

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2007

2014

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP REST
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes (replicated cache)

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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