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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. GeoMesa vs. JaguarDB vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

dgraph.io/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

CCRi and others

DataJaguar, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2016

2014

2015

1994

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

3.3 July 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Scala

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Synchronous replication via Raft

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

Planned for future releases

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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