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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. RDFox vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. RDFox vs. Riak KV

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperCCRi and othersOxford Semantic TechnologiesOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2016201420172009
Current release4.0.5, February 20246.0, Septermber 20223.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonScalaC++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlang
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factordepending on storage layerreplication via a shared file systemselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 storageRoles, resources, and access typesyes, using Riak Security

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