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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. KairosDB vs. PostGIS vs. Valentina Server

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Spatial extension of PostgreSQLObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbpostgis.netwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clskairosdb.github.iopostgis.net/­documentationvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperInterSystemsParadigma Software
Initial release20162018201320051999
Current release2023.3, June 20231.2.2, November 20183.4.2, February 20245.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyessimple password-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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