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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. LMDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

www.lmdb.tech/doc

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

IBM

Symas

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2016

2017

2011

2012

Current release

2.0

0.9.32, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Active-active shard replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

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

yes

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