DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comblazegraph.comgalaxybase.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwiki.blazegraph.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsBlazegraphChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Google
Initial release20152016200620172015
Current release1.0.0, September 20232.1.5, March 2019Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaC and Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoRDF literal typesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSPARQL is used as query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined procedures and functionsno
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-row operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Role-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Apache PinotBigchainDBBlazegraphGalaxybaseGoogle Cloud Bigtable
Recent citations in the news

StarTree Finds Apache Pinot the Right Vintage for IT Observability
8 May 2024, Datanami

StarTree Makes Observability Case for Apache Pinot Database
8 May 2024, DevOps.com

StarTree broadly enhances Apache Pinot-based analytics platform
8 May 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Open source Apache Pinot advances as StarTree boosts real-time analytics and observability
8 May 2024, VentureBeat

Real-Time Analytics for Mobile App Crashes using Apache Pinot
2 November 2023, Uber

provided by Google News

Exploring the 10 BEST Python Libraries for Blockchain Applications
9 September 2023, DataDrivenInvestor

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

Top 10 startups in Digital Twin in Germany
11 April 2024, Tracxn

Blockchain Database Startup BigchainDB Raises €3 Million
27 September 2016, CoinDesk

ascribe announces scalable blockchain database BigchainDB - CoinReport
13 February 2016, CoinReport

provided by Google News

Harnessing GPUs Delivers a Big Speedup for Graph Analytics
15 December 2015, Datanami

Back to the future: Does graph database success hang on query language?
5 March 2018, ZDNet

This AI Paper Introduces A Comprehensive RDF Dataset With Over 26 Billion Triples Covering Scholarly Data Across All Scientific Disciplines
19 August 2023, MarkTechPost

Representation Learning on RDF* and LPG Knowledge Graphs
24 September 2020, Towards Data Science

Faster with GPUs: 5 turbocharged databases
26 September 2016, InfoWorld

provided by Google News

做国产图数据库,「创邻科技」将拓展国际市场| 新科技创业-36氪
5 April 2023, 36kr

创邻科技,位居IDC MarketScape中国图数据库市场领导者类别原创
13 September 2023, CSDN

provided by Google News

Google's AI-First Strategy Brings Vector Support To Cloud Databases
1 March 2024, Forbes

Google Introduces Autoscaling for Cloud Bigtable for Optimizing Costs
31 January 2022, InfoQ.com

Google scales up Cloud Bigtable NoSQL database
27 January 2022, TechTarget

Google introduces Cloud Bigtable managed NoSQL database to process data at scale
6 May 2015, VentureBeat

Google Launches Cloud Bigtable, A Highly Scalable And Performant NoSQL Database
6 May 2015, TechCrunch

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

SingleStore logo

Build AI apps with Vectors on SQL and JSON with milliseconds response times.
Try it today.

Present your product here