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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. CockroachDB vs. FatDB vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. CockroachDB vs. FatDB vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
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 .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroichsqldb.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroichsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperCockroach LabsFatCloudSpotify
Initial release20162015201220142001
Current release23.1.1, May 20232.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoC#JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
WindowsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-freeschema-freeyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C#All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsnoJava, SQL
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsnoyes
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 RAFTShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole-based access controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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