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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. Sadas Engine vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. Sadas Engine vs. TerminusDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.sadasengine.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSpotifyHypertable Inc.SADAS s.r.l.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20162014200920062018
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20168.011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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