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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. Graph Engine vs. Netezza

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. Graph Engine vs. Netezza

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.graphengine.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­netezza
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manual
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCCRi and othersMicrosoftIBM
Initial release20162008201420102000
Current release7.2.4, September 20125.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++Scala.NET and C
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
.NETLinux infoincluded in appliance
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdepending on storage layerhorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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