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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

bangdb.com

www.bigchaindb.com

www.graphengine.io

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Initial release

2012

2016

2010

2005

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Python

.NET and C

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

.NET

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

selectable replication factor

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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