DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Kdb vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Kdb vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

High performance Time Series DBMS

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

RDF store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

code.kx.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

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

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2016

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2004

2013

2020

Current release

3.6, May 2018

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

proprietary protocol using JSON

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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