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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. CockroachDB vs. CouchDB vs. FatDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. CockroachDB vs. CouchDB vs. FatDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score4.74
Rank#67  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.cockroachlabs.comcouchdb.apache.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stable
DeveloperCockroach LabsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerFatCloud
Initial release2016201520052012
Current release24.1.0, May 20243.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonGoErlangC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyes infovia applications
Triggersnoyesyes infovia applications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno infoCan implement custom security layer via applications

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