DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. KeyDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. KeyDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Riak KV

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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.

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.geomesa.org

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

docs.keydb.dev

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

CCRi and others

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2014

2019

1989

2009

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Scala

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

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
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

simple password-based access control and ACL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

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