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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. Ignite vs. PouchDB vs. XTDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn embedded key-value store for Go.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument store
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltignite.apache.orgpouchdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestapacheignite.readme.io/­docspouchdb.com/­guideswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20162013201520122019
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.67.1.1, June 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoC++, Java, .NetJavaScriptClojure
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
GoC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)View functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno

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