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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Galaxybase vs. GeoMesa vs. Kingbase

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Galaxybase vs. GeoMesa vs. Kingbase

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#258  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgalaxybase.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司CCRi and othersBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release2016201720141999
Current releaseNov 20, November 20215.0.1, July 2024V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and JavaScalaC and Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdepending on storage layerhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factordepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
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.yesdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole-based access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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