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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. InfluxDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

In-memory database with an integrated application server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.78
Rank	#188	Overall
	#30	Document stores

Score	26.32
Rank	#27	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.17
Rank	#82	Overall
	#14	Document stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#134	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

rethinkdb.com

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Mail.ru Group

Initial release

2016

2013

2009

2008

Current release

2.0.2, November 2020

2.4.1, August 2020

2.4.2, July 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

range based

Hash sharding based on virtual buckets

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes, with SQL

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-document operations

ACID, read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

yes, regular snapshots on disk, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access rights for users and roles

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