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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoMesa vs. gStore vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

CCRi and others

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2014

2016

2012

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

1.2, November 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Scala

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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