DBMS > BigchainDB vs. FeatureBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. FeatureBase vs. GeoMesa vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

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

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

Primary database model

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	#4	Spatial DBMS

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	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.featurebase.com

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

CCRi and others

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

2014

Current release

2022, May 2022

4.0.5, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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

SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
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

depending on storage layer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes, using Linux fsync

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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

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