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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. EXASOL vs. Sadas Engine vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. EXASOL vs. Sadas Engine vs. XTDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.66
Rank#138  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#159  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#330  Overall
#45  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.exasol.comwww.sadasengine.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperElasticExasolSADAS s.r.l.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20162010200020062019
Current release8.6, January 20238.01.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectoryes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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