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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. MonetDB vs. PostGIS vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. MonetDB vs. PostGIS vs. XTDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.monetdb.orgpostgis.netgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationpostgis.net/­documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMonetDB BVJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2016200420052019
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.4.2, February 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonCCClojure
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes, 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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, 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 integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes, 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 controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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