DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

realm.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Facebook, Inc.

Cesbit

Initial release

2016

2014

2013

2017

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

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