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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TerarkDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TerarkDB vs. Valentina Server

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.kinetica.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperKineticaMicrosoftByteDance, originally TerarkParadigma Software
Initial release20162012201520161999
Current release7.1, August 2021V15.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 RAMnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing Azure authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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