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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Geode vs. Postgres-XL vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.99
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.52
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

geode.apache.org

www.postgres-xl.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

geode.apache.org/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Yanza

Initial release

2016

2002

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2015

Current release

1.1, February 2017

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS

Windows

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

MVCC

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 per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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