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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. Galaxybase vs. MarkLogic vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Graph DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	5.18
Rank	#63	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.bigobject.io

docs.marklogic.com

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

MarkLogic Corp.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2016

2015

2017

2001

2018

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined procedures and functions

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Role-based access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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