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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. DuckDB vs. GeoMesa

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. DuckDB vs. GeoMesa

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn embedded key-value store for Go.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltduckdb.orgwww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestduckdb.org/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperCCRi and others
Initial release2016201320182014
Current release0.10, February 20245.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonGoC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
GoC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonedepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenonedepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.noyesdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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