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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Ignite vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Ignite vs. SiteWhere

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
ignite.apache.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.heavy.aiapacheignite.readme.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Apache Software FoundationSiteWhere
Initial release2016201620152010
Current release5.10, January 2022Apache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++ and CUDAC++, Java, .NetJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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