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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Immudb vs. SpatiaLite

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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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.heavy.ai

docs.immudb.io

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Esgyn

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Codenotary

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2016

2015

2016

2020

2008

Current release

5.10, January 2022

1.2.3, April 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++, Java

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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