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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GridDB vs. LokiJS vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GridDB vs. LokiJS vs. NSDb

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataIn-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgriddb.netgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSnsdb.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.griddb.nettechfort.github.io/­LokiJSnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperToshiba Corporation
Initial release2016201320142017
Current release5.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++JavaScriptJava, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampnoyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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 indexesyesyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JavaScript APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJava
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.Using Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno
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BigchainDBGridDBLokiJSNSDb
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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