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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Fauna vs. LevelDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Fauna vs. LevelDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsIn-memory caching systemFauna 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.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value store
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcachelot.iofauna.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.fauna.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperFauna, Inc.GoogleByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20162015201420112016
Current release1.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonC++ScalaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonononono
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBnoyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnono

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