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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Lovefield vs. Qdrant vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

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	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Spotify

Google

Qdrant

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2016

2014

2021

1993

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

JavaScript

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

Collection-level replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual 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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

Key-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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