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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GridGain vs. Heroic vs. Pinecone vs. searchxml

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA managed, cloud-native vector databaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSVector DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.pinecone.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.SpotifyPinecone Systems, Incinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20162007201420192015
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.11.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJava, C++, .NetJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.noyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonono
APIs and other access methodsCLI 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
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
PythonC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes infoon the application server
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes (replicated cache)yesyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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