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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Heroic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Heroic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Spark SQL

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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 assetsIn-memory caching systemTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcachelot.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperSpotifySybase, SAPApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162015201419932014
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++JavaScala
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
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 methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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