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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score60.38
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcloud.google.com/­bigquerygithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsdocs.heavy.ailearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperGoogleHEAVY.AI, Inc.MicrosoftMireo
Initial release20162010201620152020
Current release5.10, January 2022V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoRound robinSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationyes

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