DBMS > Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RocksDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RocksDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

rocksdb.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

DGraph Labs

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2016

2013

2009

Current release

5.10, January 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++ and CUDA

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

C++ API
Java API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

optional

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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