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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. IRONdb vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. IRONdb vs. RDFox

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCloud-based data warehousing serviceA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperIBMInterSystemsCirconus LLC.Oxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20162014201820172017
Current release2023.3, June 2023V0.10.20, January 20186.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLyesyes, in Lua
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarereplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoRoles, resources, and access types
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