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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

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

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

IBM

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2017

2001

2011

Current release

2.0

3.5.1, February 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Active-active shard replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

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