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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Kingbase vs. Newts vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Kingbase vs. Newts vs. PouchDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#265  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.kingbase.com.cnopennms.github.io/­newtspouchdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.OpenNMS GroupApache Software Foundation
Initial release2016199920142012
Current releaseV8.0, August 20217.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and JavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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 indexesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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