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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Infobright vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

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

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2013

2005

2014

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

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

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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

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