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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Databricks vs. Heroic vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.databricks.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.databricks.comspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperDatabricksSpotifyIBMOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20162013201420171984
Current release2.07.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionHP Open VMS
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnoyes
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyesActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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