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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Immudb vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Immudb vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.24
Rank#295  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
postgis.netpouchdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.immudb.iopostgis.net/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperCodenotaryApache Software Foundation
Initial release2016202020052012
Current release1.2.3, April 20223.4.2, February 20247.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoCJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like syntaxyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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