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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. MaxDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. MaxDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/maxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Circonus LLC.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release2016201020171984
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20187.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonErlangC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in Luayes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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