DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. RDFox

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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.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

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	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.geomesa.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

machbase.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

kairosdb.github.io

machbase.com/dbms

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

CCRi and others

Machbase

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2016

2014

2013

2017

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

V8.0, August 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

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 query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

replication via a shared file system

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

simple password-based access control

Roles, resources, and access types

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