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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. DataFS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

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

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Document store

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

newdatabase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Mobiland AG

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2018

2014

2012

2015

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Windows-Profile

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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