DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Greenplum vs. Memcached vs. Snowflake vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Greenplum vs. Memcached vs. Snowflake vs. Trino

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.greenplum.org

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2005

2003

2014

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

since Version 4.2

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

SQL standard access control

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