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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JSqlDb vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JSqlDb vs. SwayDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantjsqldb.org (offline)swaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apicloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperCloudflareIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Konrad von BackstromSimer Plaha
Initial release20162018201020182018
Current release0.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonErlangScala
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedLinux
macOS
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
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptfunctions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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