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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Google BigQuery vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.datomic.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.datomic.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Cognitect

Google

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

1993

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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