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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

pouchdb.com

www.snowflake.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

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

Developer

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

1989

2012

2014

1999

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

7.1.1, June 2019

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

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

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

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

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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