DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
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Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

hive.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

IBM

Microsoft

Percona

Initial release

2016

2012

2017

1989

2015

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

2.0

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Active-active shard replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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