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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. CouchDB vs. EJDB vs. Firebolt vs. HBase

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  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.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebolt.iohbase.apache.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.firebolt.iohbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerSoftmotionsFirebolt Analytics Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20162005201220202008
Current release3.3.3, December 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonErlangCJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lesshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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 indexesyes infovia viewsnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared library.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
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
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnonoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonedepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infoRead/Write 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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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