DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Snowflake

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.37
Rank	#278	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.postgresql.fastware.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

docs.intersystems.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

InterSystems

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

1997

2014

Current release

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and by hash

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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