DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Microsoft

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2016

2000

2014

2001

Current release

15.5, September 2020

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JavaScript API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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