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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperCognitectCCRi and othersSpotify
Initial release2016201220142014
Current release1.0.7075, December 20235.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, ClojureScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersdepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentdepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

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