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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. IRONdb vs. LMDB vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IRONdb vs. LMDB vs. PouchDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.94
Rank#120  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbpouchdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.lmdb.tech/­docpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperCirconus LLC.SymasApache Software Foundation
Initial release2016201720112012
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20180.9.32, January 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++CJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsno
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 indexesnonoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.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 infoStored proceduresyes, in LuanoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonono

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