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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. FatDB vs. Interbase vs. PouchDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn embedded key-value store for Go.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepouchdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperFatCloudEmbarcaderoApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162013201219842012
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20197.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoC#CJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesno
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
GoC#.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factorInterbase Change ViewsMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
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 infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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