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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Vitess vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Vitess vs. WakandaDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlvitess.iowakanda.github.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlvitess.io/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperCCRi and othersOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)The Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleWakanda SAS
Initial release20162014198420132012
Current release4.0.5, February 20247.4.1.1, 202115.0.2, December 20222.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonScalaGoC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxHP Open VMSDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factordepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodeACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes

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