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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. Drizzle

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn embedded key-value store for Go.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­bolt
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latest
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker
Initial release201620132008
Current release7.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU GPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languagePythonGoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
GoC
C++
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTP

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