DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.heavy.ai

kairosdb.github.io

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2016

2010

2016

2013

2006

Current release

5.10, January 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++ and CUDA

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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