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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. FeatureBase vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.In-memory JavaScript DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.featurebase.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.featurebase.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperSoftmotionsMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162012201720142012
Current release2022, May 20227.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCGoJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnono
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
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia viewsyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL queriesnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared librarygRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
JavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes, using Linux fsyncyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonono

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