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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Databricks vs. Newts vs. Snowflake

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  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 based on CassandraCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.databricks.comopennms.github.io/­newtswww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.databricks.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperDatabricksOpenNMS GroupSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2016201320142014
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
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Implementation languagePythonJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Python
R
Scala
JavaJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnouser defined functions
Triggersnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 controlyesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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