DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GridDB vs. openGemini vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GridDB vs. openGemini vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

griddb.net

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.griddb.net

docs.opengemini.org/guide

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

Huawei and openGemini community

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2013

2022

2015

Current release

5.1, August 2022

1.1, July 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

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 for users can be defined per database

Administrators and common users accounts

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