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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. mSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. SpatiaLite

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score16.36
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestopensearch.org/­docs/­latestwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesAmazon Web ServicesAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2016199420212008
Current release4.4, October 20212.5.0, January 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonCJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnono
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BigchainDBmSQL infoMini SQLOpenSearchSpatiaLite
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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