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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. LMDB vs. Memcached vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. LMDB vs. Memcached vs. Snowflake

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  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.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.memcached.orgwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.lmdb.tech/­docgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperCCRi and othersSymasDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20162014201120032014
Current release4.0.5, February 20240.9.32, January 20241.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonScalaCC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions
Triggersnononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layernonenoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factordepending on storage layernonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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