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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. Galaxybase vs. GeoMesa vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. Galaxybase vs. GeoMesa vs. Titan

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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.Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.04
Rank#187  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
galaxybase.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcubrid.org/­manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司CCRi and othersAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20162008201720142012
Current release11.0, January 2021Nov 20, November 20215.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++, JavaC and JavaScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
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
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingdepending on storage layeryes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
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 storageUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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