DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine

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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.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#200	Overall
	#32	Document stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#199	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	6.63
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	93.51
Rank	#14	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#183	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.geomesa.org

riak.com/products/riak-kv

www.snowflake.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.taosdata.com/en/documentation

Developer

CCRi and others

Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Taos Data

Initial release

2016

2014

2009

2014

2019

Current release

3.2.0, April 2021

2.1.0, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Scala

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

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

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript and Erlang

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

yes

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Licensing and pricing models

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