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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

bangdb.com

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Softmotions

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2016

2012

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Python

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

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

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

selectable replication factor

none

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

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Read/Write Locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

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, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

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