DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. STSdb

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

geospock.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

GeoSpock

Microsoft

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2016

2014

1989

2011

Current release

2.0, September 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

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

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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