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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Description

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

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Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.bigchaindb.com

www.graphengine.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Microsoft

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2016

2010

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

.NET and C

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

.NET

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL2016 compliant

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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