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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. Fauna vs. Heroic vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

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

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#72	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

fauna.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.fauna.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Spotify

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2016

2013

2014

1993

Current release

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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