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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Heroic vs. OrientDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.cockroachlabs.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicorientdb.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperCockroach LabsElasticSpotifyOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20162015201020142010
Current release24.1.0, May 20248.6, January 20233.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoJava, Javascript
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication using RAFTyesyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectornono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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