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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. LevelDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Snowflake

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Name

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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

github.com/google/leveldb

www.sequoiadb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

IBM

Google

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

1983

host version

2011

2013

2014

Current release

12.1, October 2016

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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