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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. DolphinDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. DolphinDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#292  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Score2.72
Rank#100  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.combrytlyt.iowww.dolphindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.brytlyt.iodocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperBrytlytDolphinDB, IncIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Google
Initial release20162016201820102014
Current release5.0, August 2023v2.00.4, January 20222.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonC, C++ and CUDAC++ErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
TriggersyesnoyesUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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