DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RocksDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

geospock.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

GeoSpock

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2013

Current release

2.0, September 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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