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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. HyperSQL

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. GeoMesa vs. HyperSQL

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#329  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.14
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.combigobject.iowww.geomesa.orghsqldb.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.bigobject.iowww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.CCRi and others
Initial release2016201520142001
Current release5.0.1, July 20242.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoJava, SQL
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedepending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonedepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
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.yesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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