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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. JSqlDb vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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Name

JSqlDB 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 persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

rocksdb.org

rockset.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2016

2018

2013

2019

Current release

0.8, December 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

using RocksDB

yes

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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