DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GridGain vs. Heroic vs. Hyprcubd vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GridGain vs. Heroic vs. Hyprcubd vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.gridgain.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Spotify

Hyprcubd, Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2016

2007

2014

2010

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Python

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

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

gRPC (https)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Security Hooks for custom implementations

token access

yes

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