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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. DolphinDB vs. GeoMesa vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Description

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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

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

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

CCRi and others

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2018

2014

2015

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Scala

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

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

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

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.

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

rights management via user accounts

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