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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Graphite vs. HBase vs. Kinetica vs. MonetDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhbase.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgraphite.readthedocs.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.kinetica.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperChris DavisApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetKineticaMonetDB BV
Initial release20162006200820122004
Current release2.3.4, January 20217.1, August 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonPythonJavaC, C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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