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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Riak KV

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.enterprisedb.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperEnterpriseDBMicrosoftOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2016200520122009
Current release14, December 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonCErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noErlang
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesyes, using Riak Security

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