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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. Spark SQL vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

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

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.openpie.com

spark.apache.org/sql

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

OpenPie

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2016

2014

1998

Current release

2.1, January 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment；...
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