DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. PieCloudDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. PieCloudDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.openpie.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Percona

OpenPie

SiteWhere

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2008

2010

2014

Current release

8.0.36-28, 2024

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

yes

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

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

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