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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. FatDB vs. NCache vs. PouchDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

pouchdb.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

FatCloud

Alachisoft

Apache Software Foundation

TempoIQ

Initial release

2016

2012

2005

2012

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Notifications

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

simple authentication-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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