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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Heroic vs. LMDB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Heroic vs. LMDB vs. LokiJS

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.lmdb.tech/­doctechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperCognitectSpotifySymas
Initial release20162012201420112014
Current release1.0.6735, June 20230.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, ClojureJavaCJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsnonoView functions in JavaScript
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonono

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