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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Fauna vs. Immudb vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Fauna vs. Immudb vs. Postgres-XL

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#305  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comfauna.comgithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.fauna.comdocs.immudb.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperFauna, Inc.Codenotary
Initial release2016201420202014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release1.2.3, April 202210 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonScalaGoC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like syntaxyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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