DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Geode vs. jBASE vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Geode vs. jBASE vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ

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Name

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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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

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	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

geode.apache.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

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

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2016

2002

1991

2014

2012

Current release

1.1, February 2017

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

yes

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

simple authentication-based access control

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