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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Faircom DB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. PostgreSQL

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score636.25
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.postgresql.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlwww.postgresql.org/­docs
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsFairCom CorporationIBMPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developer
Initial release20162023197920141989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL
Current release1.0, March 2023V12, November 202016.3, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonC++ANSI C, C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
hostedFreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyes
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyesyes infostandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++PL/SQL, SQL PLuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardingpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).yesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptstunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesPassword-based authenticationFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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