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DBMS > ArcadeDB vs. BigchainDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. BigchainDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TypeDB

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NameArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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 assetsDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS infoin next version
Document storeDocument storeGraph 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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Score0.02
Rank#366  Overall
#50  Document stores
#38  Graph DBMS
#53  Key-value stores
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitearcadedb.comwww.bigchaindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudanttypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.arcadedb.combigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperArcade DataIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Vaticle
Initial release2021201620102016
Current releaseSeptember 20212.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaPythonErlangJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language, no joinsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationship in graphsnonono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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ArcadeDBBigchainDBIBM CloudantTypeDB 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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