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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memcached vs. ToroDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memcached vs. ToroDB vs. Transbase

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB 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 CouchDBIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.memcached.orggithub.com/­torodb/­serverwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal8KdataTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20162010200320161987
Current release1.6.27, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL-V3commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonErlangCJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VMFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyes
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 SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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