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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Firebolt vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LeanXcale

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebolt vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LeanXcale

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.firebolt.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.leanxcale.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.firebolt.iocloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014LeanXcale
Initial release2016202020102015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno
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
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infothrough Apache Derby
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factordepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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