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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HarperDB vs. Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Ultra-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.

Well established RDBMS

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
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Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.harperdb.io

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

HarperDB

Actian Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

2013

Current release

3.1, August 2021

11.2, May 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Node.js

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
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

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Ingres Replicator

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes, using LMDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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