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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. ITTIA vs. JaguarDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

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

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

CCRi and others

ITTIA L.L.C.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2014

2007

2015

1987

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

8.7

3.3 July 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Scala

C and C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

depending on storage layer

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Database file passwords

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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