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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. TerarkDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsSpatial extension of H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.kinetica.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperCNRSKineticaByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2016201320122016
Current release7.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2user defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infobased on H2Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infobased on H2Access rights for users and roles on table levelno

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