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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQream DB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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 durabilityRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsqream.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.sqream.com
DeveloperCognitectSAP infoformerly SybaseSQream Technologies
Initial release2016201219922017
Current release1.0.6735, June 202317, July 20152022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, ClojureC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perluser defined functions in Python
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
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 developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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