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

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

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.databricks.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.databricks.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperDatabricksCCRi and othersOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesMireo
Initial release20162013201420092020
Current release5.0.0, May 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonScalaErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Python
R
Scala
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
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnoErlangno
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infono "single point of failure"Fixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factorReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
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 controlyesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes, using Riak Securityyes
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