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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. PouchDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/pouchdb.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperDGraph LabsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Circonus LLC.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20172016201020172012
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20187.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoPythonErlangC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes 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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenono

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