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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. FatDB vs. Heroic vs. OrientDB vs. Splice Machine

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.27
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#15  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#255  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicorientdb.orgsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperFatCloudSpotifyOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSplice Machine
Initial release20162012201420102014
Current release3.2.29, March 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC#JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxWindowsAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoSQL-like query language, no joinsyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsnoJava, Javascriptyes infoJava
Triggersyes infovia applicationsnoHooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationship in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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