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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. LokiJS vs. Snowflake vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#329	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.snowflake.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2014

1999

Current release

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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