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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Riak KV vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Riak KV vs. RisingWave

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesRisingWave Labs
Initial release201620092022
Current release3.2.0, December 20221.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languagePythonErlangRust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoStandard SQL-types and JSON
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.nonono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, using Riak SecurityUsers and Roles

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