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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. PostGIS vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. PostGIS vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.compostgis.netwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestpostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2016200520152014
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonCErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes, limitedyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsErlanguser defined functions
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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