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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. FeatureBase vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#296	Overall
	#134	Relational DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.featurebase.com

pouchdb.com/guides

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Apache Software Foundation

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2017

2012

2018

Current release

2022, May 2022

7.1.1, June 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

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

Linux

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
Python

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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