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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Geode vs. RDFox vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Geode vs. RDFox vs. VoltDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 processesHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgeode.apache.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.techdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Oxford Semantic TechnologiesVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2016200220172010
Current release1.1, February 20176.0, Septermber 202211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++Java, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)noyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationreplication via a shared file systemMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights per client and object definableRoles, resources, and access typesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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