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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. RDFox vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. RDFox vs. XTDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.iodocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersOxford Semantic TechnologiesJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20162014201320172019
Current release5.0.0, May 20241.2.2, November 20186.0, Septermber 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonScalaJavaC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
Java
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factordepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrareplication via a shared file systemyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
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 storagesimple password-based access controlRoles, resources, and access types

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