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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 H2Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.81
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#323  Overall
#28  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbterminusdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.ioterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCCRi and othersDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2016201420132018
Current release4.0.5, February 20241.2.2, November 201811.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonScalaJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
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 indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infobased on CassandraGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factordepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraJournaling Streams
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple password-based access controlRole-based access control

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