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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Ehcache vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Ehcache vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  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.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeDocument storeDocument store
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblazegraph.comwww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwiki.blazegraph.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperBlazegraphTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSoftmotions
Initial release20162006200920122014
Current release2.1.5, March 20193.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaCJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-lessserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idno
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
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JCachein-process shared libraryJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta Servernonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyes infoby using Terracotta Servernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoRead/Write Locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)nonono

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