DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Kdb vs. Oracle vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Kdb vs. Oracle vs. SAP HANA

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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.

High performance Time Series DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.geomesa.org

kx.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

code.kx.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

CCRi and others

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Oracle

SAP

Initial release

2016

2014

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

1980

2010

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

3.6, May 2018

23c, September 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

similar paradigm used for internal processing

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

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