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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak TS vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak TS vs. ToroDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperFoundationDBPerconaOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies8Kdata
Initial release20162013201520152016
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.4.10-2.10, November 20173.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infosome layers support typingyesnoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyJavaScriptErlang
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynono infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights for users and roles

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