DBMS > BigchainDB vs. JSqlDb vs. Lovefield vs. Pinecone vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. JSqlDb vs. Lovefield vs. Pinecone vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

google.github.io/lovefield

www.pinecone.io

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Google

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2016

2018

2014

2019

1993

Current release

0.8, December 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

yes

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

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

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 RocksDB

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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