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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Pinecone vs. VelocityDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.pinecone.iovelocitydb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Pinecone Systems, IncVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20162012201020192011
Current release3.1.3, April 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaErlangC#
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedhostedAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoString, Number, Booleanyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Python.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
TriggersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseBased on Windows Authentication

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