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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Greenplum vs. Memcached vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Greenplum vs. Memcached vs. QuestDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score7.71
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgreenplum.orgwww.memcached.orgquestdb.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.greenplum.orggithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2016200520032014
Current release7.0.0, September 20231.6.29, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonCJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol
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