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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. LokiJS vs. Machbase Neo vs. RRDtool

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

machbase.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

machbase.com/dbms

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Machbase

Tobias Oetiker

Initial release

2016

2014

2013

1999

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

in-process shared library
Pipes

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple password-based access control

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