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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. mSQL vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. mSQL vs. SiteWhere

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Search engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcloud.google.com/­bigtableazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftHughes TechnologiesSiteWhere
Initial release20162015201519942010
Current releaseV14.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonCJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infousing Azure authenticationnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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