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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.intersystems.com

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Spotify

InterSystems

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2016

2014

1997

2012

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Python

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

yes

yes

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.

no

no

yes

no

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

no

no

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

yes

no

Triggers

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

no

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles

no

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