DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Sqrrl vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Sqrrl vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Yanza 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

In-memory caching system

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

cachelot.io

sqrrl.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

Developer

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Yanza

Initial release

2016

2015

2012

2020

2015

Current release

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C++

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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