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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. Galaxybase vs. GeoMesa vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. Galaxybase vs. GeoMesa vs. Riak KV

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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 OLTPScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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Score0.86
Rank#210  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.44
Rank#168  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#218  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.95
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
galaxybase.comwww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcubrid.org/­manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司CCRi and othersOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20162008201720142009
Current release11.0, January 2021Nov 20, November 20214.0.5, February 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++, JavaC and JavaScalaErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesStrong typed schemayesschema-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 indexesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsnoErlang
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor
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 integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 layer
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes, using Riak Security

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