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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Drizzle vs. LokiJS vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2008

2014

2012

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

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

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JavaScript API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PHP

JavaScript

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

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

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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.

yes

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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