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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Kdb vs. RDFox vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Kdb vs. RDFox vs. Splice Machine

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHigh performance Time Series DBMSHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comkx.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcode.kx.comdocs.oxfordsemantic.techsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOxford Semantic TechnologiesSplice Machine
Initial release20162000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320172014
Current release3.6, May 20186.0, Septermber 20223.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonqC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (q)noyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
Java
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoJava
Triggersyes infowith viewsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationreplication via a shared file systemMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesrights management via user accountsRoles, resources, and access typesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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BigchainDBKdbRDFoxSplice Machine
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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