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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. JaguarDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.geomesa.org

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

CCRi and others

DataJaguar, Inc.

8Kdata

Initial release

2016

2014

2015

2016

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

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++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

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

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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