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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GridGain vs. Heroic vs. searchxml vs. SWC-DB

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Name

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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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	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.gridgain.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Spotify

informationpartners gmbh

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2016

2007

2014

2015

2020

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

1.0

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java, C++, .Net

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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