DBMS > BigchainDB vs. MaxDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. MaxDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

2013

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

10 R1, October 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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