DBMS > BigchainDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SingleStore vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SingleStore vs. Teradata

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.singlestore.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.singlestore.com

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

SingleStore Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2016

2013

1993

2013

1984

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

8.5, January 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

hosted
Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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