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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. DataFS vs. GeoMesa vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

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

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Mobiland AG

CCRi and others

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2016

2018

2014

2017

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

5.0.0, May 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Scala

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

depending on storage layer

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

depending on storage layer

none

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Windows-Profile

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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