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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQL.JS

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.combigobject.iorocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlsql.js.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Facebook, Inc.Sybase, SAPAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20162015201319932012
Current release9.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyesno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyesMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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