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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.bigchaindb.com

dgraph.io

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

dgraph.io/docs

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Splice Machine

Initial release

2013

2016

2014

Current release

15585

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

Planned for future releases

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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