DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Kingbase

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Kingbase

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#14	Vector DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Google

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Initial release

2016

2010

2015

1999

Current release

3.3 July 2023

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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