DBMS > Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. IRONdb vs. OpenSearch vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. IRONdb vs. OpenSearch vs. PouchDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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 distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.bigchaindb.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

opensearch.org/docs/latest

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

DGraph Labs

Circonus LLC.

Amazon Web Services

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2017

2016

2017

2021

2012

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.5.0, January 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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