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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. LokiJS vs. Riak TS vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

typedb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Vaticle

Initial release

2016

2014

2015

2016

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

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

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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