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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. ObjectBox vs. PouchDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

pouchdb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.objectbox.io

pouchdb.com/guides

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Apache Software Foundation

SiteWhere

Initial release

2016

2017

2012

2010

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

More information provided by the system vendor

News

MongoDB Realm & Device Sync alternatives – ObjectBox
17 September 2024

Local AI – what it is and why we need it
11 September 2024

First on-device Vector Database (aka Semantic Index) for iOS
24 July 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases: Expanding AI Capabilities
18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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Recent citations in the news

Using BigchainDB: A Database with Blockchain Characteristics
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