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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. GeoMesa vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. GeoMesa vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Vitess

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Widely used in-process key-value storeScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.38
Rank#276  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.combrytlyt.iowww.geomesa.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlvitess.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.brytlyt.iowww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperBrytlytCCRi and othersOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20162016201419942013
Current release5.0, August 20235.0.0, May 202418.1.40, May 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++ and CUDAScalaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layernoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.depending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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