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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. LeanXcale vs. SAP IQ vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	128.79
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.28
Rank	#286	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.leanxcale.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Elastic

LeanXcale

SAP, formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2010

2015

1994

2000

Current release

8.6, January 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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