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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Immudb vs. SAP HANA

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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.

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.geomesa.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

docs.immudb.io

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

CCRi and others

Codenotary

SAP

Initial release

2016

2014

2020

2010

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

1.2.3, April 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Python

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

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