DBMS > BigchainDB vs. KairosDB vs. RDF4J vs. SQLite vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. KairosDB vs. RDF4J vs. SQLite vs. STSdb

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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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

rdf4j.org

www.sqlite.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

kairosdb.github.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2013

2004

2000

2011

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

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