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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Coveo vs. GridGain vs. Heroic vs. searchxml

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.11
Rank#118  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.coveo.comwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.coveo.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperCoveoGridGain Systems, Inc.Spotifyinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20162012200720142015
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.11.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, C++, .NetJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesschema-freeschema-free
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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyes (replicated cache)yesyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnomultiple readers, single writer
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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