DBMS > BigchainDB vs. KairosDB vs. MySQL vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. KairosDB vs. MySQL vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Widely used open source RDBMS

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#362	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.mysql.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

kairosdb.github.io

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Transwarp

Initial release

2016

2013

1995

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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