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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. HBase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HBase vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VelocityDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableCloud-based data warehousing serviceRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comhbase.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthbase.apache.org/­book.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherevelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIBMSAP infoformerly SybaseVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20162008201419922011
Current release2.3.4, January 202117, July 20157.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavaPL/SQL, SQL PLyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
TriggersyesyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDACID
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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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