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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. DataFS vs. Heroic vs. Ingres

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#354  Overall
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comnewdatabase.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperMobiland AGSpotifyActian Corporation
Initial release2016201820141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release1.1.263, October 202211.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxWindowsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes
Triggersno, except callback-events from server when changes happenednoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingProprietary Sharding systemShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesWindows-Profilefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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