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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. Dgraph vs. H2 vs. PouchDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.09
Rank#353  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#158  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score8.22
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblueflood.iodgraph.iowww.h2database.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidgraph.io/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperRackspaceDgraph Labs, Inc.Thomas MuellerApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162013201620052012
Current release2.2.220, July 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaGoJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandrayesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSynchronous replication via RaftWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes 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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnono infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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