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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EXASOL vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB vs. Quasardb

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.exasol.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.jaguardb.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperExasolCirconus LLC.DataJaguar, Inc.quasardb
Initial release20162000201720152009
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.3 July 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes, in Luanono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
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 RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnorights management via user accountsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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