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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Galaxybase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Galaxybase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Spark SQL

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgalaxybase.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2016201720102014
Current releaseNov 20, November 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC and JavaErlangScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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