DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. LokiJS vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. LokiJS vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

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

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
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Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

rocksdb.org

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Cloudflare

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2018

2014

2013

2014

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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