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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. gStore vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. gStore vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSDocument store
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comen.gstore.cngithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesten.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperSpotify
Initial release2016201620142014
Current release1.2, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedno

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