DBMS > BigchainDB vs. etcd vs. Oracle vs. Sadas Engine vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. etcd vs. Oracle vs. Sadas Engine vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

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

A distributed reliable key-value store

Widely used RDBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	7.64
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	19.15
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.oracle.com/database

www.sadasengine.com

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

1980

2006

2014

Current release

3.4, August 2019

23c, September 2023

8.0

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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