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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. Qdrant vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

hsqldb.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

qdrant.tech/documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Spotify

Qdrant

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2016

2014

2001

2021

2006

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

Collection-level replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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