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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Firebolt vs. Hazelcast vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebolt vs. Hazelcast vs. PouchDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseA widely adopted in-memory data gridJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.firebolt.iohazelcast.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.firebolt.iohazelcast.org/­imdg/­docspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.HazelcastApache Software Foundation
Initial release2016202020082012
Current release5.3.6, November 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes infoEventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factordepending on storage layeryes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes 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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole-based access controlno

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