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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Kingbase vs. LokiJS vs. Newts vs. TerminusDB

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

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.In-memory JavaScript DBMSTime Series DBMS based on CassandraScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSopennms.github.io/­newtsterminusdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.OpenNMS GroupDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20161999201420142018
Current releaseV8.0, August 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and JavaJavaScriptJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JavaScript APIHTTP REST
Java API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScriptJavaJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneSharding infobased on CassandraGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoRole-based access control

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