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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IRONdb vs. PouchDB vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IRONdb vs. PouchDB vs. RethinkDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/pouchdb.comrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.heavy.aidocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedpouchdb.com/­guidesrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Circonus LLC.Apache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20162016201720122009
Current release5.10, January 2022V0.10.20, January 20187.1.1, June 20192.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++ and CUDAC and C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptC 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 proceduresnoyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnonoyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoyes infousers and table-level permissions

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