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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Couchbase vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.couchbase.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.couchbase.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Couchbase, Inc.

FairCom Corporation

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2016

2011

1979

2003

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

V3, October 2020

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C, C++, Go and Erlang

ANSI C, C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

yes

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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