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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. FatDB vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. FatDB vs. jBASE

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
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.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Multivalue DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblazegraph.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperBlazegraphDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerFatCloudRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release20162006200820121991
Current release2.1.5, March 20197.2.4, September 20125.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
WindowsAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesoptional
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBC.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
C#.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infovia applicationsyes
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infovia applicationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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