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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. ObjectBox vs. PostGIS vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.objectbox.io

postgis.net/documentation

docs.teradata.com

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Teradata

Initial release

2016

2017

2005

1984

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted
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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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