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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Kingbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Kingbase vs. VelocityDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgeospock.comwww.kingbase.com.cnvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGeoSpockBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release201619992011
Current release2.0, September 2019V8.0, August 20217.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, JavascriptC and JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)Standard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
TriggersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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