DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	2.15
Rank	#123	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	19.15
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.citusdata.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/spotify/heroic

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.citusdata.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Google

Spotify

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2010

2014

Current release

8.1, December 2018

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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