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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Kingbase vs. LokiJS vs. Newts vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

opennms.github.io/newts

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

OpenNMS Group

Mireo

Initial release

2016

1999

2014

2020

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C and Java

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Java

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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