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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Drizzle vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Realm

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  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.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchrealm.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.kinetica.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerKineticaMicrosoftRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20162008201220152014
Current release7.2.4, September 20127.1, August 2021V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonC++C, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxhostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlyesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing Azure authenticationyes

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