DBMS > BigchainDB vs. HarperDB vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HarperDB vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. Warp 10

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Name

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Description

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.harperdb.io

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

HarperDB

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

SenX

Initial release

2016

2017

2014

2012

2015

Current release

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Node.js

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

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

simple authentication-based access control

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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