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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB vs. Sadas Engine

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.comwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guideswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Apache Software FoundationSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20162016201420122006
Current release7.1.1, June 20198.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoJavaScriptJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonoyes
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 viewsyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via RaftnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoPlanned for future releasesnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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