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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. DuckDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

duckdb.org

www.geomesa.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

duckdb.org/docs

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

CCRi and others

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2018

2014

2011

2014

Current release

0.10, February 2024

4.0.5, February 2024

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

depending on storage layer

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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