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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Manticore Search vs. TimescaleDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Manticore Search vs. TimescaleDB vs. XTDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.commanticoresearch.comwww.timescale.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.timescale.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperManticore SoftwareTimescaleJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2016201720172019
Current release6.0, February 20232.15.0, May 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++CClojure
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noCan index from XMLyesno
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxlimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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