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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Sadas Engine vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Sadas Engine vs. TerminusDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore 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 ElasticSearchA multi-model DBMS and application serverSADAS 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 DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument 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.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.sadasengine.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.intersystems.comwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSpotifyInterSystemsSADAS s.r.l.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20162014199720062018
Current release2018.1.4, May 20208.011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replicationnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
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.noyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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