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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. PouchDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. ScyllaDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  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 ElasticSearchJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicpouchdb.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperSpotifyApache Software FoundationSybase, SAPScyllaDB
Initial release20162014201219932015
Current release7.1.1, June 2019ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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 Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptDelphi
Perl
PHP
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyesyes, Lua
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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BigchainDBHeroicPouchDBSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADSScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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