DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerminusDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.sadasengine.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Spotify

SADAS s.r.l.

Sybase, SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2014

2006

1993

2018

Current release

8.0

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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