DBMS > BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. JaguarDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. Google BigQuery vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

bigobject.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.bigobject.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Google

InterSystems

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2010

2018

2015

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

rights management via user accounts

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