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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. HyperSQL vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. HyperSQL vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
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.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime 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
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgeospock.comhsqldb.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperGeoSpockTobias OetikerSybase, SAP
Initial release2016200119991993
Current release2.0, September 20192.7.2, June 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, JavascriptJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesHP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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.noyesyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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