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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. RDF4J vs. YottaDB

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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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.bigchaindb.com

rdf4j.org

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

rdf4j.org/documentation

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

DGraph Labs

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2017

2016

2004

2001

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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