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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RisingWave vs. SpatiaLite

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

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.risingwave.com/­databasewww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.heavy.aidocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperEsgynHEAVY.AI, Inc.RisingWave LabsAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20162015201620222008
Current release5.10, January 20221.2, September 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++, JavaC++ and CUDARustC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresnoUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and Rolesno

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