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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. FatDB vs. Qdrant vs. Vertica vs. Yaacomo

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Vector DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.vertica.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestqdrant.tech/­documentationvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperFatCloudQdrantOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20162012202120052009
Current release12.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersno
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Implementation languagePythonC#RustC++
Server operating systemsLinuxWindowsDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.yes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyes infovia applicationsyes, called Custom Alertsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factorCollection-level replicationMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono infoBi-directional Spark integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsKey-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hashfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BigchainDBFatDBQdrantVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™Yaacomo
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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