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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SWC-DB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SWC-DB vs. YottaDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeWide column storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
yottadb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Alex KashirinYottaDB, LLC
Initial release2016201020202001
Current release0.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonErlangC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxDocker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonono
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 indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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