DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RocksDB 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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

rocksdb.org

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

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2016

2015

2010

2013

1993

Current release

V12

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

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

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

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

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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