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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. Drizzle vs. GeoMesa

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.geomesa.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cubrid.org/manuals

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

CCRi and others

Initial release

2016

2008

2014

Current release

11.0, January 2021

7.2.4, September 2012

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C, C++, Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Data scheme

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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