DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.bigchaindb.com

www.datomic.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.datomic.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Cognitect

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2016

2012

1991

2013

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

1.0.6735, June 2023

5.7

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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