DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. OpenTSDB vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. OpenTSDB vs. Snowflake vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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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.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
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	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

CCRi and others

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Tencent

Initial release

2016

2014

2011

2014

2013

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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