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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. IRONdb vs. OushuDB vs. STSdb

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.oushu.com/­documentation
DeveloperCirconus LLC.OushuSTS Soft SC
Initial release201620172011
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20184.0.1, August 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Full-featured ANSI SQL supportno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client 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
C
C++
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luayesno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoKerberos, SSL and role based accessno

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