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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. Hypertable vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. Hypertable vs. Riak KV

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblueflood.iowww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperRackspaceCCRi and othersHypertable Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20162013201420092009
Current release5.0.1, July 20240.9.8.11, March 20163.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaScalaC++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnono
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 indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTC++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoErlang
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandradepending on storage layerShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandradepending on storage layerselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
depending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nodepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoyes, using Riak Security

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