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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Tkrzw vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. LokiJS vs. Sequoiadb vs. Tkrzw vs. Yaacomo

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score0.42
Rank#263  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sequoiadb.comdbmx.net/­tkrzwyaacomo.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperSequoiadb Ltd.Mikio HirabayashiQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20162014201320202009
Current release0.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
macOS
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIproprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptJavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleDocument is locked during a transactionACID
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.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infousing specific database classesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnosimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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