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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. MySQL vs. QuestDB vs. SAP HANA

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsWidely used open source RDBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APITime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1029.49
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score41.32
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.mysql.comquestdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­hana.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdev.mysql.com/­docquestdb.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunQuestDB Technology IncSAP
Initial release2016199520142010
Current release9.0.0, July 20242.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoalso available as a cloud based service
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Appliance or cloud-service
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoproprietary syntaxnoSQLScript, R
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabrichorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)yes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
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.yesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes
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