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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Access vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Access vs. RethinkDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MicrosoftThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20162008201019922009
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20192.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonErlangC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes, details herenoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (GQL)noyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresusing Google App EngineView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
TriggersCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infobut no files for transaction loggingAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users can be defined per databaseno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infousers and table-level permissions

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