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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.73
Rank	#215	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

SiteWhere

Initial release

2016

2010

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Recent citations in the news

Using BigchainDB: A Database with Blockchain Characteristics
20 January 2022, Open Source For You

Scalable blockchain database BigchainDB releases 2.0.0 Beta 6
18 September 2018, CryptoNinjas

Figure 2.7: BigchainDB architecture.
21 October 2018, ResearchGate

IPDB Announced as Public, Planetary-Scale Blockchain Database
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