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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#165  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.compouchdb.comterminusdb.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestpouchdb.com/­guidesterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.VictoriaMetrics
Initial release2016201220182018
Current release7.1.1, June 201911.0.0, January 2023v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaScriptProlog, RustGo
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes
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 indexesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeGraph Partitioning
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
Journaling StreamsSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoRole-based access control

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