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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Newts vs. Sadas Engine vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Newts vs. Sadas Engine vs. Vitess

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 scaleTime Series DBMS based on CassandraSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgeospock.comopennms.github.io/­newtswww.sadasengine.comvitess.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperGeoSpockOpenNMS GroupSADAS s.r.l.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2016201420062013
Current release2.0, September 20198.015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, JavascriptJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
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 indexestemporal, categoricalnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP REST
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.nonoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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