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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. HBase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Manticore Search vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HBase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Manticore Search vs. PouchDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA multi-model DBMS and application serverMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comhbase.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachemanticoresearch.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.intersystems.commanual.manticoresearch.compouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetInterSystemsManticore SoftwareApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162008199720172012
Current release2.3.4, January 20212018.1.4, May 20206.0, February 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibledepending on used data modelFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanno
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.nonoyesCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnono

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