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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. HBase vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. HBase vs. PouchDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisoneXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsNatively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.80
Rank#214  Overall
#99  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.mcobject.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgehbase.apache.orgpouchdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperMcObjectFairCom CorporationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162001197920082012
Current release8.2, 2021V3, October 20202.3.4, January 20217.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++ANSI C, C++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesoptions to bring your own types, AVROno
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.nono infosupport of XML interfaces availableyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes infoby defining eventsyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning / shardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorActive Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
yes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infowhen using SQLnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes 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.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno
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Specific characteristicseXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantageseXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenariosIoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customersSchneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metricsWith hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing modelsFor server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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