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

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

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  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 OLTPGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.geomesa.orgboilerbay.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcubrid.org/­manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationCCRi and othersBoiler Bay Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20162008201420022009
Current release11.0, January 20214.0.5, February 20244.03.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++, JavaScalaJavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysno
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 indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
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
JavaC 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 ProceduresnonoErlang
Triggersyesnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedepending on storage layernoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layernoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno
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.nodepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoyes, using Riak Security

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