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DBMS > AntDB vs. BigchainDB vs. HarperDB vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. BigchainDB vs. HarperDB vs. PouchDB

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#317  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlwww.bigchaindb.comwww.harperdb.iopouchdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.harperdb.io/­docspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedHarperDBApache Software Foundation
Initial release201620172012
Current release3.1, August 20217.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonNode.jsJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freedynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoJSON data typesno
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 indexesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresCustom Functions infosince release 3.1View functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes, using LMDByes 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesno

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