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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Memcached vs. PouchDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Memcached vs. PouchDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score16.84
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#16  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.memcached.orgpouchdb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikipouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalApache Software Foundation
Initial release2016200320122023
Current release1.6.29, June 20247.1.1, June 20191.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonCJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoVector, Numeric and String
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBnoyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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