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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsOracles in-memory data grid solutionJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.02
Rank#131  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencepouchdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencepouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperOracleApache Software FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2016200720122009
Current release14.1, August 20237.1.1, June 20193.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersyes infoLive Eventsyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurablenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infooptionallyyes 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 controlyesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationnoyes, using Riak Security

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