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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. openGauss vs. RethinkDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. openGauss vs. RethinkDB vs. Valentina Server

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  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 ElasticSearchAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Object-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
rethinkdb.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
rethinkdb.com/­docsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperSpotifyHuawei and openGauss communityThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Paradigma Software
Initial release20162014201920091999
Current release3.0, March 20222.4.1, August 20205.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC, C++, JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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 Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL 2011noyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes
TriggersnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Sharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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