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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SpaceTime vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. SpaceTime vs. Splice Machine

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn embedded key-value store for Go.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilitySpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.mireo.com/­spacetimesplicemachine.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperInterSystemsMireoSplice Machine
Initial release20162013201820202014
Current release2023.3, June 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infoJava
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingFixed-grid hypercubesShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyesyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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