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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen vs. Vertica

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerDocument store
RDF store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlterminusdb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1vertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperSAP, SybaseDataChemist Ltd.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005OpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20161987201819982005
Current release16.011.0.0, January 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)12.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++Prolog, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)yesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava and Transact-SQLyesPL/SQLyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyesyesnoyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoin-memory journalingyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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BigchainDBSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASETerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTimesTenVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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