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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. FatDB vs. GeoMesa vs. LMDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. FatDB vs. GeoMesa vs. LMDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdb
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.lmdb.tech/­doc
DeveloperFatCloudCCRi and othersSymas
Initial release2016201220142011
Current release4.0.5, February 20240.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC#ScalaC
Server operating systemsLinuxWindowsLinux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsnono
Triggersyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdepending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factordepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
depending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageno

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