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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. DolphinDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.dolphindb.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

IBM

Initial release

2016

2018

2014

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL, SQL PL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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