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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Pinecone vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Pinecone vs. Realm

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOracles in-memory data grid solutionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.pinecone.iorealm.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperSpotifyOraclePinecone Systems, IncRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20162014200720192014
Current release14.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Python.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnoyes infoLive Eventsyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infooptionallyyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlyesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationyes

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