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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RisingWave

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

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  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 OLTPGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.04
Rank#187  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcubrid.org/­manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationCCRi and othersIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014RisingWave Labs
Initial release20162008201420102022
Current release11.0, January 20215.0.0, May 20241.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++, JavaScalaErlangRust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoStandard SQL-types and JSON
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 SQLnoyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes 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.nodepending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers and Roles

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