DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Heroic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Heroic vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SwayDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

geospock.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

GeoSpock

Spotify

Sybase, SAP

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2014

1993

2018

Current release

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java, Javascript

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

An Introduction to BigchainDB, a Popular Blockchain Database
17 September 2020, Open Source For You

Blockchain Database Startup BigchainDB Raises €3 Million
27 September 2016, CoinDesk

What is BigchainDB Technology & How it works and the Characteristics?
26 August 2017, Blockchain Council

Using BigchainDB: A Database with Blockchain Characteristics
20 January 2022, Open Source For You

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7 June 2016, Bitcoin Magazine

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23 February 2021, ComputerWeekly.com

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4 September 2019, VanillaPlus

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2 October 2020, AlexaBlockchain

GeoSpock’s extreme-scale data mission in $5.4m funding boost
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