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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. PostGIS vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. PostGIS vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#350  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storepostgis.netwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storepostgis.net/­documentationdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperIBMTranswarp
Initial release201620172005
Current release2.03.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorActive-active shard replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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