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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Heroic vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Heroic vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. PlanetScale

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  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 durabilityTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#119  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverplanetscale.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperCognitectSpotifyPerconaPlanetScale
Initial release20162012201420082020
Current release1.0.7075, December 20238.0.36-28, 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonJava, ClojureJavaC and C++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyesyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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 developmentnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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