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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Greenplum vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Greenplum vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. XTDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A 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 H2A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgreenplum.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.heavy.aikairosdb.github.iowww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20162005201620132019
Current release7.0.0, September 20235.10, January 20221.2.2, November 20181.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++ and CUDAJavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2nonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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