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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.iolearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperFairCom CorporationCCRi and othersMicrosoft
Initial release20161979201420132015
Current releaseV3, October 20205.0.0, May 20241.2.2, November 2018V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonANSI C, C++ScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesnonono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningdepending on storage layerSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
depending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
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.yesdepending on storage layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.yes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple password-based access controlyes infousing Azure authentication

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