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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.73
Rank	#215	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2016

2008

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

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DB-Engines blog posts

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6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann

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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
1 June 2016, PRWeb

Toyota Taps Blockchain Tech for Self-Driving Cars
4 March 2021, CCN.com

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