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

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Name

Description

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

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.valentina-db.net

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Paradigma Software

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2016

2014

2020

1999

2001

Current release

0.5, April 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

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

optimistic locking

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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