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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Geode vs. Hive vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Geode vs. Hive vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgeode.apache.orghive.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.kinetica.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgeode.apache.org/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookCirconus LLC.Kinetica
Initial release20162002201220172012
Current release1.1, February 20173.1.3, April 2022V0.10.20, January 20187.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaC and C++C, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in Luauser defined functions
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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