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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. H2GIS vs. Manticore Search vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

manual.manticoresearch.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

CNRS

Manticore Software

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2013

2017

2018

Current release

6.0, February 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on H2

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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