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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. OpenTSDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. OpenTSDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmanticoresearch.comopentsdb.netwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmanual.manticoresearch.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperManticore Softwarecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20162014201720112014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release6.0, February 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaScriptC++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nonoCan index from XMLnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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