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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Spatial extension of H2A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.heavy.aikairosdb.github.io
DeveloperGoogleCNRSHEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release20162017201320162013
Current release5.10, January 20221.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++ and CUDAJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
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 indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011yesyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2nono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoRound robinSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infobased on H2Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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