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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. OpenQM vs. QuestDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. OpenQM vs. QuestDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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 ElasticSearchQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmquestdb.iowww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperSpotifyRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsQuestDB Technology IncSybase, SAP
Initial release20162014199320141993
Current release3.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 Elasticsearchyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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BigchainDBHeroicOpenQM infoalso called QMQuestDBSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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