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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hyprcubd vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Hyprcubd vs. Prometheus

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareServerless Time Series DBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgeospock.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
hyprcubd.com (offline)prometheus.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.heavy.aiprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperGeoSpockHEAVY.AI, Inc.Hyprcubd, Inc.
Initial release201620162015
Current release2.0, September 20195.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJava, JavascriptC++ and CUDAGoGo
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringNumeric data only
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 infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
gRPC (https)RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardtoken accessno

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