DBMS > BigchainDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. OpenSearch vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. OpenSearch vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#370	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	16.31
Rank	#36	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Esgyn

FairCom Corporation

Amazon Web Services

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

1979

2021

2014

Current release

V3, October 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++, Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

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

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

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

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

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

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