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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Riak KV vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

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

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#55	Key-value stores
	#24	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2009

2022

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

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users and roles

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