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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Raima Database Manager vs. ScyllaDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Key-value store
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Score0.76
Rank#215  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score3.11
Rank#86  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score802.09
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#266  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.74
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comhsqldb.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverraima.comwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.raima.comdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperMicrosoftRaima Inc.ScyllaDB
Initial release20162001198919842015
Current release2.7.2, June 2023SQL Server 2022, November 202215, June 2021ScyllaDB Open Source 6.0.2, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++CC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Windows
Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationyes, Lua
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationhorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesyesyesyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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BigchainDBHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBMicrosoft SQL ServerRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsRaima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Competitive advantagesDecreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosTypical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersInfor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsOver 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsJust as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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