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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. SAP IQ vs. YottaDB

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Name

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Spotify

SAP, formerly Sybase

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2016

2014

1994

2001

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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