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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. mSQL vs. PouchDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlpouchdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestpouchdb.com/­guidessitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesApache Software FoundationSiteWhere
Initial release2016199420122010
Current release4.4, October 20217.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourceOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonCJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes 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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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