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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. Faircom DB vs. SwayDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. Faircom DB vs. SwayDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.combigobject.iowww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbswaydb.simer.autinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.bigobject.iodocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.FairCom CorporationSimer Plaha
Initial release20162015197920182009
Current releaseV12, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonANSI C, C++ScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanotunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesnono

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