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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. TimescaleDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. TimescaleDB vs. Titan

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgeospock.comwww.timescale.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.timescale.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperGeoSpockTimescaleAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release201620172012
Current release2.0, September 20192.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, JavascriptCJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graph
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 infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
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-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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