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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. OpenTSDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. OpenTSDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.citusdata.comopentsdb.netwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.citusdata.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2016201020112008
Current release8.1, December 20185.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonCJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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 functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nono
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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