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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. Teradata

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA multi-model DBMS and application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachesphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.teradata.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.intersystems.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperInterSystemsSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SCTeradata
Initial release20161997200120111984
Current release2018.1.4, May 20203.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windowshosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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