DBMS > BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

rocksdb.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

IBM

Facebook, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2016

2014

2013

1999

1993

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

in-process shared library
Pipes

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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