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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake vs. Vitess

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.snowflake.comvitess.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperSiteWhereSnowflake Computing Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2016201020142013
Current release15.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBaseyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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 conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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