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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BigchainDB vs. Cassandra vs. Geode vs. Kingbase

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

geode.apache.org/docs

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Initial release

1999

2016

2008

2002

1999

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

1.1, February 2017

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Python

Java

C and Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language (OQL)

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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