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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NCache vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Spotify

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Alachisoft

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2016

2014

2010

2005

2012

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Erlang

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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 can be defined per database

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

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