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

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 ElasticSearchA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroicvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperChris DavisSpotifyVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2016200620142011
Current release7.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonPythonJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Any that supports .NET
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 SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoBased on Windows Authentication

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