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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

pouchdb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

pouchdb.com/guides

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2016

2012

2011

2014

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

JavaScript

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C#
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Sharding

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

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

Using BigchainDB: A Database with Blockchain Characteristics
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