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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Spark SQL

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidespotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20162014201420102014
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaErlangScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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