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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. Galaxybase vs. Kinetica vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. Galaxybase vs. Kinetica vs. SwayDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.combigobject.iogalaxybase.comwww.kinetica.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.bigobject.iodocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司KineticaSimer Plaha
Initial release20162015201720122018
Current releaseNov 20, November 20217.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and JavaC, C++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesStrong typed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined procedures and functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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