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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. LevelDB vs. OushuDB vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. LevelDB vs. OushuDB vs. PouchDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.33
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#357  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitealasql.orgwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBpouchdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.oushu.com/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGoogleOushuApache Software Foundation
Initial release2014201620112012
Current release1.23, February 20214.0.1, August 20207.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C++
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnoKerberos, SSL and role based accessno

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