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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. Heroic vs. Ingres

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Name

Description

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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Well established RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

greptime.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.greptime.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.actian.com/ingres

Developer

Greptime Inc.

Spotify

Actian Corporation

Initial release

2016

2022

2014

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

Current release

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Ingres Replicator

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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