DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Snowflake vs. Splice Machine vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Snowflake vs. Splice Machine vs. WakandaDB

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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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.snowflake.com

splicemachine.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Elastic

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splice Machine

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2016

2010

2014

2012

Current release

8.6, January 2023

3.1, March 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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)

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

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

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#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Java

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

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Yes, via Full Spark 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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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