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

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Name

Description

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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

postgis.net

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

opensearch.org/docs/latest

postgis.net/documentation

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

InterSystems

Amazon Web Services

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2018

2021

2005

1999

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

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 PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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