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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. Ingres vs. SwayDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. Ingres vs. SwayDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  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 queriesWell established RDBMSAn 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 imposedRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
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Score0.86
Rank#210  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#333  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score5.15
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#385  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.combigobject.iowww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresswaydb.simer.autinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.bigobject.iodocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Actian CorporationSimer Plaha
Initial release201620151974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20182009
Current release11.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneIngres Replicatornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 datanoACIDAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infoMVCCyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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