DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. MongoDB vs. PieCloudDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. MongoDB vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

brytlyt.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.mongodb.com

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

Developer

Brytlyt

InterSystems

MongoDB, Inc

OpenPie

Initial release

2016

2018

2009

Current release

5.0, August 2023

2023.3, June 2023

6.0.7, June 2023

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Market metrics

Hundreds of millions downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month...
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Licensing and pricing models

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