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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. IRONdb vs. LevelDB vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IRONdb vs. LevelDB vs. QuestDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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 simplicityEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.33
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­google/­leveldbquestdb.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperCirconus LLC.GoogleQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2016201720112014
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20181.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes
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 indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
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
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luanono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnono
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