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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Databricks vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Databricks vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.A multi-model DBMS and application serverBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.databricks.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.postgres-xl.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.databricks.comdocs.intersystems.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperDatabricksInterSystemsVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2016201319972014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2011
Current release2018.1.4, May 202010 R1, October 20187.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonCC#
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)depending on used data modelyesyes
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.noyesyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Python
R
Scala
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyesuser defined functionsno
TriggersyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACID
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication
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BigchainDBDatabricksInterSystems CachéPostgres-XLVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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