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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB vs. TerminusDB

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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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Search engine

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

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

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.bigobject.io

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Simer Plaha

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2015

2003

2018

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Scala

Prolog, Rust

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
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

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 journaling

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

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

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