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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Databricks vs. EXASOL vs. GeoMesa

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  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.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.databricks.comwww.exasol.comwww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.databricks.comwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperDatabricksExasolCCRi and others
Initial release2016201320002014
Current release4.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonScala
Server operating systemsLinuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Python
R
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesdepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
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 controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage
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BigchainDBDatabricksEXASOLGeoMesa
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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