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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Databricks vs. Dragonfly vs. GeoMesa vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Databricks vs. Dragonfly vs. GeoMesa vs. Riak KV

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.databricks.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.geomesa.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.databricks.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperDatabricksDragonflyDB team and community contributorsCCRi and othersOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20162013202320142009
Current release1.0, March 20235.0.0, May 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonC++ScalaErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)scheme-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesno
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C 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 proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesLuanoErlang
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
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.noyesdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlyesPassword-based authenticationyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes, using Riak Security
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