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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. InterSystems IRIS

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#342  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score4.39
Rank#81  Overall
#13  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#44  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.combigobject.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iris
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.bigobject.iowww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.cls
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.IBMInterSystems
Initial release2016201520172018
Current release2.02023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesdepending on used data model
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate 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)No - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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