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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Kinetica vs. LMDB vs. OpenMLDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenMLDB  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 durabilityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryAn open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#359  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comwww.kinetica.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbopenmldb.ai
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comdocs.kinetica.comwww.lmdb.tech/­docopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­main
DeveloperCognitectKineticaSymas4 Paradigm Inc.
Initial release20162012201220112020
Current release1.0.7075, December 20237.1, August 20210.9.32, January 20242024-2 February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, ClojureC, C++CC++, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeFixed schema
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsnono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
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 developmentyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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