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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Quasardb vs. Splice Machine vs. SQream DB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Sparka GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comquasar.aisplicemachine.comsqream.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperquasardbSplice MachineSQream Technologies
Initial release2016200920142017
Current release3.14.1, January 20243.1, March 20212022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++JavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infointeger and binaryyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infowith tagsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJavauser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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