DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. LokiJS vs. OpenSearch vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. LokiJS vs. OpenSearch 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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
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Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

opensearch.org/docs/latest

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Amazon Web Services

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2016

2000

2014

2021

2001

Current release

15.5, September 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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

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