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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. CouchDB vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	0.20
Rank	#325	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	10.26
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.bigchaindb.com

couchdb.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

DGraph Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2017

2016

2005

1984

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Erlang

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single document possible

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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