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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.48
Rank#158  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.48
Rank#260  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2016201620142013
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptJavaScript
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via RaftnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleDocument is locked during a transaction
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoPlanned for future releasesnosimple password-based access control

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