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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. gStore vs. PostGIS vs. Valentina Server

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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.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

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

en.gstore.cn

postgis.net

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

postgis.net/documentation

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Cloudflare

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2018

2016

2005

1999

Current release

1.2, November 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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