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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PostGIS vs. SpatiaLite vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PostGIS vs. SpatiaLite vs. Trafodion

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLSpatial extension of SQLiteTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#377  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.hawkular.orgpostgis.netwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indextrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidepostgis.net/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatAlessandro FurieriApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162014200520082014
Current release3.4.2, February 20245.0.0, August 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaCC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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