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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. Dgraph vs. TypeDB

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comblueflood.iodgraph.iotypedb.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidgraph.io/­docstypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationRackspaceDgraph Labs, Inc.Vaticle
Initial release20142016201320162016
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaGoJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandrayesSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyesnono infoPlanned for future releasesyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Apache PhoenixBigchainDBBluefloodDgraphTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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