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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB vs. Solr

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	2.01
Rank	#126	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

www.bigchaindb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

rocksdb.org

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

1994

2013

2006

Current release

2.1, December 2018

18.1.40, May 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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