DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Quasardb vs. ScyllaDB vs. Snowflake vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Quasardb vs. ScyllaDB vs. Snowflake vs. Solr

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.scylladb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

quasardb

ScyllaDB

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2009

2015

2014

2006

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

with tags

yes

cluster global secondary indices

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Lua

user defined functions

Java plugins

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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