DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Milvus vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Milvus vs. SWC-DB

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Name

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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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	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

milvus.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Spotify

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2016

2014

2019

2020

Current release

2.3.4, January 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

Vector, Numeric and String

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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