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

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

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencerealm.iovitess.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencerealm.io/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperSpotifyOracleRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20162014200720142013
Current release14.1, August 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyes infoLive Eventsyes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyes, with selectable consistency levelnoneMulti-source replication
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
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoconfigurableACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.noyesyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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