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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Citus vs. Geode vs. JaguarDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Citus vs. Geode vs. JaguarDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblazegraph.comwww.citusdata.comgeode.apache.orgwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.citusdata.comgeode.apache.org/­docswww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperBlazegraphOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.DataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20162006201020022015
Current release2.1.5, March 20198.1, December 20181.1, February 20173.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaCJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definablerights management via user accounts

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