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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. GigaSpaces vs. Heroic vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. GigaSpaces vs. Heroic vs. QuestDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comwww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicquestdb.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperCognitectGigaspaces TechnologiesSpotifyQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20162012200020142014
Current release1.0.7075, December 202315.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, ClojureJava, C++, .NetJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesnono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes, event driven architecturenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yesSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoRole-based access control
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BigchainDBDatomicGigaSpacesHeroicQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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