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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. JaguarDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#356  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroicwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperChris DavisSpotifyDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release2016200620142015
Current release3.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonPythonJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnorights management via user accounts

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