DBMS > BigchainDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

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Name

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Description

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

boilerbay.com

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2002

2014

2012

2018

Current release

4.0

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

simple authentication-based access control

Role-based access control

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