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

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

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)In-memory JavaScript DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document 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
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblazegraph.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwiki.blazegraph.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperBlazegraphSoftmotionsApache Software Foundation
Initial release20162006201220142012
Current release2.1.5, March 20197.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2Open SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaCJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-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 typesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnono
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 indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes 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
in-process shared libraryJavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnonenoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
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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