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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.bigchaindb.comgeospock.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-web
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBGeoSpockGoogleChris Davis
Initial release2012201620152006
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20212.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++PythonJava, JavascriptPython
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedhostedLinux
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsnoyesnoNumeric data only
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialtemporal, categoricalnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingAutomatic shardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factorInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-row operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes infolocking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)yesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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