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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. FileMaker vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. FileMaker vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.86
Rank#210  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.21
Rank#129  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score48.81
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#255  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.63
Rank#242  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.citusdata.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.citusdata.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleHarperDBSpotify
Initial release20162010198320172014
Current release8.1, December 201819.4.1, November 20213.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCNode.jsJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesdynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoJSON data typesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes infovia pluginsSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
PHP.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesCustom Functions infosince release 3.1no
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic execution of specific operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users and roles

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