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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. CrateDB vs. KairosDB vs. Linter

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

RDBMS for high security requirements

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#226	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#11	Vector DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#368	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

cratedb.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

linter.ru

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cratedb.com/docs

kairosdb.github.io

Developer

Crate

relex.ru

Initial release

2016

2013

1990

Current release

5.8.1, August 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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