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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dolt vs. LokiJS vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

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

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.dolthub.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Initial release

2016

2018

2014

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

Using Apache Lucene

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

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