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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. DuckDB vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.04
Rank#187  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
duckdb.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcubrid.org/­manualsduckdb.org/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationCCRi and othersIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20162008201820142010
Current release11.0, January 20211.0.0, June 20245.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++, JavaC++ScalaErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
server-lesshosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonedepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnonedepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoOptimistic locking
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.noyesdepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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