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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Riak TS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Riak TS vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQLite

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  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 ElasticSearchRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#308  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score116.01
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperSpotifyOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSybase, SAPDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20162014201519932000
Current release3.0.0, September 20223.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaErlangC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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 Elasticsearchrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, limitedyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangyesno
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
none
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between datasets can be storedyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
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.nono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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