DBMS > BigchainDB vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

pouchdb.com/guides

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2016

2012

2009

2014

2015

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

selectable replication factor

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

yes, using Riak Security

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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