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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Geode vs. searchxml vs. XTDB

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Name

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

geode.apache.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

geode.apache.org/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

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

informationpartners gmbh

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2002

2015

2019

Current release

1.1, February 2017

1.0

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes, each node contains all data

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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