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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. GeoSpock vs. RocksDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

geospock.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

GeoSpock

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2013

Current release

2.0, September 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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 rights for users can be defined per table

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