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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SiteWhere vs. SQL.JS vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SiteWhere vs. SQL.JS vs. YottaDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 hardwareM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresql.js.orgyottadb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.heavy.aisitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.SiteWhereAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20162016201020122001
Current release5.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++ and CUDAJavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyespredefined schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP RESTJavaScript APIPostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptC
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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