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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Kdb vs. PouchDB vs. Sphinx vs. Warp 10

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHigh performance Time Series DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#349  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comkx.compouchdb.comsphinxsearch.comwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcode.kx.compouchdb.com/­guidessphinxsearch.com/­docswww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.SenX
Initial release20162000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201220012015
Current release3.6, May 20187.1.1, June 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonqJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (q)noSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Proprietary protocolHTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
JavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnoyes infoWarpScript
Triggersyes infowith viewsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesrights management via user accountsnonoMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations
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BigchainDBKdbPouchDBSphinxWarp 10
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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