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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. EXASOL vs. GridDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataMicrosofts flagship relational DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.exasol.comgriddb.netwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-server
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.griddb.netlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-server
DeveloperSoftmotionsExasolToshiba CorporationMicrosoft
Initial release20162012200020131989
Current release5.1, August 2022SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared library.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID at container levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BigchainDBEJDBEXASOLGridDBMicrosoft SQL Server
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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