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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenSearch vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2010

2015

2021

2018

Current release

3.3 July 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

rights management via user accounts

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