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

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

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA distributed reliable key-value storeGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblueflood.ioetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.geomesa.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikietcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperRackspaceCCRi and othersOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2016201320142009
Current release3.4, August 20195.0.0, May 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaGoScalaErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesno
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 indexesnonoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTgRPC
JSON over HTTP
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
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
Triggersnoyes, watching key changesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandradepending on storage layerSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.depending on storage layerselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual 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.nonodepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes, using Riak Security

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