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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

IBM

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2016

1983

host version

2018

2014

Current release

12.1, October 2016

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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