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

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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)In-memory JavaScript DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guidessurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSoftmotionsApache Software FoundationSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20162012201420122022
Current release7.1.1, June 2019v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPLv2Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCJavaScriptJavaScriptRust
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnonoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryJavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScriptDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes 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 backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnononoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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