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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Heroic vs. Sadas Engine vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Heroic vs. Sadas Engine vs. TerminusDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.sadasengine.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCockroach LabsSpotifySADAS s.r.l.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20162015201420062018
Current release24.1.0, May 20248.011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoJavaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-freeyesyes
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 infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
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 RAFTShardinghorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication using RAFTyesnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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