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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. jBASE vs. KairosDB vs. Newts

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Name

Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.datomic.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.datomic.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Cognitect

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2016

2012

1991

2013

2014

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

5.7

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

simple password-based access control

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