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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. LokiJS vs. RavenDB

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Document store

Secondary database models

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Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.77
Rank	#209	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.34
Rank	#272	Overall
	#43	Document stores

Score	2.50
Rank	#102	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2016

2014

2010

Current release

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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