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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. CouchDB vs. DuckDB vs. openGemini vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. CouchDB vs. DuckDB vs. openGemini vs. OrigoDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#375  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcouchdb.apache.orgduckdb.orgwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
origodb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableduckdb.org/­docsdocs.opengemini.org/­guideorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerHuawei and openGemini communityRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20162005201820222009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release3.3.3, December 20230.10, February 20241.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonErlangC++GoC#
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesInteger, Float, Boolean, StringUser defined using .NET types and collections
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAdministrators and common users accountsRole based authorization

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