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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

manticoresearch.com

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

manual.manticoresearch.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Manticore Software

Initial release

2016

2014

2017

Current release

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

full-text index on all search fields

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

Using Apache Lucene

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

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