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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerminusDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scalePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgeospock.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperGeoSpockTeradataDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release201620052018
Current release2.0, September 201911.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJava, JavascriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
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.nonoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoR packagesyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
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 infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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