DBMS > BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MariaDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MariaDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Tibero

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

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

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.heavy.ai

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Sybase, SAP

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2016

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

1993

2003

Current release

5.10, January 2022

11.3.2, February 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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