DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

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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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.snowflake.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Elastic

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2010

2014

2020

1999

Current release

8.6, January 2023

0.5, April 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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