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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Kingbase vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Kingbase vs. Splice Machine

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  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.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.kingbase.com.cnsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperCCRi and othersBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Splice Machine
Initial release2016201419992014
Current release5.0.0, May 2024V8.0, August 20213.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonScalaC and JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoJava
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factordepending on storage layeryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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