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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. OushuDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. OushuDB vs. Riak KV

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDB
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.oushu.com/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperIBMOushuOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release201620172009
Current release2.04.0.1, August 20203.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeFull-featured ANSI SQL supportno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesErlang
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorActive-active shard replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKerberos, SSL and role based accessyes, using Riak Security

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