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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Riak KV vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2016

2009

2012

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Python

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

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

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

no

no

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.

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

no

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

no

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

yes

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

no

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

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

yes, using Riak Security

no

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