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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

spark.apache.org/sql

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Mireo

Apache Software Foundation

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2016

2020

2014

2012

Current release

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

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.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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