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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EsgynDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Esgyn

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2015

2010

2015

Current release

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++, Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

using Azure authentication

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