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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. etcd vs. GigaSpaces vs. LokiJS vs. Sphinx

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA distributed reliable key-value storeHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.cometcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
docs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2016200020142001
Current release3.4, August 201915.5, September 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoJava, C++, .NetJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnono
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.nonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JavaScript APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
JavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes, watching key changesyes, event driven architectureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Multi-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoRole-based access controlnono

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