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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. PouchDB vs. RDF4J vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRDF storeSpatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.compouchdb.comrdf4j.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestpouchdb.com/­guidesrdf4j.org/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.MireoSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162012200420202001
Current release7.1.1, June 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaScriptJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesno
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 indexesyes infovia viewsyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneFixed-grid hypercubesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
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 datanoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonoyesno

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