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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. JaguarDB vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. JaguarDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.jaguardb.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperCCRi and othersDataJaguar, Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2016201420152012
Current release4.0.5, February 20243.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonScalaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factordepending on storage layerMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagerights management via user accountsno

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