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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.86
Rank#210  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.18
Rank#331  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperSnowflake Computing Inc.Alex KashirinParadigma Software
Initial release2016201420201999
Current release0.5, April 20215.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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