DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. Realm vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. Realm vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/spotify/heroic

realm.io

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

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

realm.io/docs

Developer

Google

Spotify

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2016

2010

2014

1993

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

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

In-Memory realm

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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