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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB vs. TempoIQ

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4surrealdb.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SCSurrealDB LtdTempoIQ
Initial release20162009201120222012
Current release3.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonErlangC#Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
WindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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 indexesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
HTTP API
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
C#
Java
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangnono
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, using Riak Securitynoyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple authentication-based access control

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