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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. CouchDB vs. Immudb vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. CouchDB vs. Immudb vs. KairosDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  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 open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score7.46
Rank#51  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.24
Rank#295  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.immudb.iokairosdb.github.io
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerCodenotary
Initial release2016200520202013
Current release3.3.3, December 20231.2.3, April 20221.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonErlangGoJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
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
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access control

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