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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Realm

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  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 metricTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOracles in-memory data grid solutionA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencerealm.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencerealm.io/­docs
DeveloperElasticSpotifyOracleRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20162010201420072014
Current release8.6, January 202314.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeschema-freeyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes infoLive Eventsyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyesyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornonono
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, allEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlyesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationyes

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