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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. FeatureBase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.featurebase.com

www.hawkular.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.featurebase.com

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Community supported by Red Hat

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2017

2014

1989

Current release

2022, May 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes, using Linux fsync

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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