DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Ultipa

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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.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

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

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Cloudflare

Microsoft

Ultipa

Initial release

2016

2018

2014

2012

2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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