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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. Datomic vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. Datomic vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblueflood.iowww.datomic.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.datomic.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperRackspaceCognitectIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2016201320122010
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaJava, ClojureErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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