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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

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Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

boilerbay.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Boiler Bay Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2016

2010

2002

2012

Current release

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple authentication-based access control

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