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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ScyllaDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InterSystems Caché vs. ScyllaDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA multi-model DBMS and application serverCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.scylladb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.heavy.aidocs.intersystems.comdocs.scylladb.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.InterSystemsScyllaDBVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20162016199720152011
Current release5.10, January 20222018.1.4, May 2020ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++ and CUDAC++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)no
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
C++
Java
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, Luano
TriggersnoyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
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.yesyesyes infoin-memory tablesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectBased on Windows Authentication
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BigchainDBHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022InterSystems CachéScyllaDBVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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