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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sequoiadb

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Name	BigchainDB  Xexclude from comparison	BigObject  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Sequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets	Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database model	Document store	Relational DBMS a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed	Relational DBMS	Document store Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.85 Rank #208   Overall #35   Document stores	Score 0.19 Rank #329   Overall #146   Relational DBMS		Score 0.50 Rank #258   Overall #41   Document stores #120   Relational DBMS
Website	www.bigchaindb.com	bigobject.io	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentation	bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latest	docs.bigobject.io		www.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
Developer		BigObject, Inc.	Sybase, SAP	Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release	2016	2015	1993	2013
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source AGPL v3	commercial free community edition available	commercial	Open Source Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Python			C++
Server operating systems	Linux	Linux distributed as a docker-image OS X distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker) Windows distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)	Linux Windows	Linux
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes	yes	yes oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes		yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like DML and DDL statements	yes	SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods	CLI Client RESTful HTTP API	fluentd ODBC RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages	Go Haskell Java JavaScript Python Ruby		Delphi Perl PHP	.Net C++ Java PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		Lua	yes	JavaScript
Triggers		no	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	none	none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	selectable replication factor	none	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		none	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes automatically between fact table and dimension tables	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data		no	ACID	Document is locked during a transaction
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		yes	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control	yes	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	simple password-based access control
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	BigchainDB	BigObject	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	Sequoiadb
Recent citations in the news	Using BigchainDB: A Database with Blockchain Characteristics 20 January 2022, Open Source For You Blockchain Database Startup BigchainDB Raises €3 Million 27 September 2016, CoinDesk BigchainDB Raises €3M Series A Funding 28 September 2016, FinSMEs 7 blockchain firms join Bosch led GAIA-X consortium for vehicle identity - Ledger Insights 13 September 2022, Ledger Insights ascribe announces scalable blockchain database BigchainDB - CoinReport 13 February 2016, CoinReport provided by Google News		SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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