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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cubrid vs. GeoMesa vs. Informix

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

Primary database model

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	17.87
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/informix

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cubrid.org/manuals

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

CCRi and others

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

Initial release

2016

2008

2014

1984

Current release

11.0, January 2021

4.0.5, February 2024

14.10.FC5, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C, C++, Java

Scala

C, C++ and Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

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