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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cassandra vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Prometheus vs. Rockset

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcassandra.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeprometheus.iorockset.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeprometheus.io/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookIBMRockset
Initial release20162008201720152019
Current release4.1.3, July 20232.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC and C++GoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data onlydynamic typing
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.nononono infoImport of XML data possibleno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionnonoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleActive-active shard replicationyes infoby Federationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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