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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Dolt vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dolt vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SQL.JS

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwarePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
github.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
sql.js.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.dolthub.comdocs.heavy.aisql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperDoltHub IncHEAVY.AI, Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2016201820162012
Current release5.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoC++ and CUDAJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infocurrently in alpha releasenono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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