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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LeanXcale vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.leanxcale.com

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

InterSystems

LeanXcale

Initial release

2016

2018

2015

2017

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Java
Scala

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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