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

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.h2gis.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.heavy.ai

kairosdb.github.io

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

CNRS

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2016

2013

2016

2013

2014

Current release

5.10, January 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++ and CUDA

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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