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

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

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.snowflake.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.heavy.ai

docs.intersystems.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

InterSystems

Snowflake Computing Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

1997

2014

2011

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2018.1.4, May 2020

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
C++
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Based on Windows Authentication

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