DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Newts vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Newts vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

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Score	121.33
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Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

opennms.github.io/newts

www.snowflake.com

sqream.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

OpenNMS Group

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2016

2014

2017

2009

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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

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