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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. openGauss vs. Sadas Engine vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. openGauss vs. Sadas Engine vs. Spark SQL

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2gitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.sadasengine.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
www.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperIBMHuawei and openGauss communitySADAS s.r.l.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20161983 infohost version201920062014
Current release12.1, October 20163.0, March 20228.03.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree version is availableOpen Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++C, C++, JavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesANSI SQL 2011yesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)horizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Source-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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