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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. HarperDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HarperDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak KV

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.harperdb.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperHarperDBIBMPerconaOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20162017201420152009
Current release3.1, August 20213.4.10-2.10, November 20173.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonNode.jsC++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemayesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoJSON data typesyesyesno
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like data manipulation statementsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
proprietary protocol using JSONHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresCustom Functions infosince release 3.1PL/SQL, SQL PLJavaScriptErlang
Triggersnoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes, using LMDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesyes, using Riak Security

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