DBMS > BigchainDB vs. openGauss vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. openGauss vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake

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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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

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

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

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Huawei and openGauss community

Sybase, SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2019

1993

2014

Current release

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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