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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. etcd vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed reliable key-value store

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Website

www.bigchaindb.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

pouchdb.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2012

2013

Current release

3.4, August 2019

7.1.1, June 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

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

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

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