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DBMS > ArcadeDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. H2GIS vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. H2GIS vs. TinkerGraph

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NameArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewrittenBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLSpatial extension of H2A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS infoin next version
Document storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.09
Rank#355  Overall
#48  Document stores
#37  Graph DBMS
#52  Key-value stores
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.15
Rank#123  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitearcadedb.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.citusdata.comwww.h2gis.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.arcadedb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.citusdata.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperArcade DataCNRS
Initial release20212016201020132009
Current releaseSeptember 20218.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonCJavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
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.nonoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language, no joinsnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infobased on H2no
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes infobased on H2none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationship in graphsnoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)no
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2no

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