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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsSpatial extension of H2A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbterminusdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.heavy.aikairosdb.github.ioterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCNRSHEAVY.AI, Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20162013201620132018
Current release5.10, January 20221.2.2, November 201811.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++ and CUDAJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2nonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoRound robinSharding infobased on CassandraGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infobased on H2Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlRole-based access control

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