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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. LeanXcale vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#283	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.leanxcale.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

Developer

LeanXcale

Mireo

Initial release

2016

2015

2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

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