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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Kinetica vs. LMDB vs. Trafodion vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Kinetica vs. LMDB vs. Trafodion vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.kinetica.comwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbtrafodion.apache.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.kinetica.comwww.lmdb.tech/­doctrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperKineticaSymasApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPTranswarp
Initial release2016201220112014
Current release7.1, August 20210.9.32, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++CC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OpenCypher
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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