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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Ingres vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Ingres vs. jBASE

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchWell established RDBMSA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperSpotifyActian CorporationRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release201620141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s1991
Current release11.2, May 20225.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptional
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesIngres Replicatoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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