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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Databend vs. Dragonfly vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Databend vs. Dragonfly vs. PouchDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
github.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
pouchdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.databend.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperDatabend LabsDragonflyDB team and community contributorsApache Software Foundation
Initial release2016202120232012
Current release1.0.59, April 20231.0, March 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonRustC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxhosted
Linux
macOS
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesscheme-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysno
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 indexesnonoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuaView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesPassword-based authenticationno

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