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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Prometheus

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsWell established RDBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsprometheus.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.actian.com/­ingrestechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperActian CorporationMicrosoft
Initial release20161974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201420162015
Current release11.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonCJavaScriptC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesNumeric data only
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC#
Java
PHP
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptTransact SQLno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorIngres Replicatornoneyesyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesno

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