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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. searchxml vs. SpaceTime

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Name	BigchainDB  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	searchxml  Xexclude from comparison	SpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
		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	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server	SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database model	Document store	Relational DBMS	Native XML DBMS Search engine	Spatial DBMS
Secondary database models				Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.85 Rank #208   Overall #35   Document stores		Score 0.03 Rank #390   Overall #7   Native XML DBMS #24   Search engines	Score 0.03 Rank #392   Overall #8   Spatial DBMS
Website	www.bigchaindb.com	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.searchxml.net/­category/­products	www.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentation	bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latest		www.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
Developer		Sybase, SAP	informationpartners gmbh	Mireo
Initial release	2016	1993	2015	2020
Current release			1.0
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source AGPL v3	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Python		C++	C++
Server operating systems	Linux	Linux Windows	Windows	Linux
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes	yes	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.	no	no	yes	no
Secondary indexes		yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	no	A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methods	CLI Client RESTful HTTP API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	RESTful HTTP API WebDAV XQuery XSLT	RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	Go Haskell Java JavaScript Python Ruby	Delphi Perl PHP	C++ most other programming languages supported via APIs	C# C++ Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		yes	yes on the application server	no
Triggers		yes	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	none	none	Fixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	selectable replication factor	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	yes sychronisation to multiple collections	Real-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data		ACID	multiple readers, single writer	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no	no
User concepts Access control	yes	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services	yes
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	BigchainDB	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	searchxml	SpaceTime
Recent citations in the news	Using BigchainDB: A Database with Blockchain Characteristics 20 January 2022, Open Source For You Blockchain Database Startup BigchainDB Raises €3 Million 27 September 2016, CoinDesk BigchainDB Raises €3M Series A Funding 28 September 2016, FinSMEs ascribe announces scalable blockchain database BigchainDB - CoinReport 13 February 2016, CoinReport BigchainDB: A Popular and Powerful Database for Blockchain 9 September 2019, Open Source For You provided by Google News	SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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