DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Drizzle vs. searchxml vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Drizzle vs. searchxml vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

informationpartners gmbh

Mireo

Initial release

2016

2008

2015

2020

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes

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