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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Databricks vs. GridGain vs. MarkLogic vs. Sphinx

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Search engine
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.databricks.comwww.gridgain.comwww.marklogic.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.databricks.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.marklogic.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDatabricksGridGain Systems, Inc.MarkLogic Corp.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162013200720012001
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.111.0, December 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, C++, .NetC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.noyesyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes infoSQL92SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Python
R
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptno
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyes (replicated cache)yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes, with Range Indexes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsno
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