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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB vs. XTDB

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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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

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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	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#19	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

origodb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

origodb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Robert Friberg et al

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2010

2009

under the name LiveDB

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Erlang

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Write ahead log

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Role based authorization

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