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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EXASOL vs. KairosDB vs. PouchDB vs. ToroDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.exasol.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbpouchdb.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.exasol.com/­resourceskairosdb.github.iopouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperExasolApache Software Foundation8Kdata
Initial release20162000201320122016
Current release1.2.2, November 20187.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes 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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlnoAccess rights for users and roles

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