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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. EXASOL vs. HyperSQL vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. EXASOL vs. HyperSQL vs. SwayDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblazegraph.comwww.exasol.comhsqldb.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwiki.blazegraph.comwww.exasol.com/­resourceshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperBlazegraphExasolSimer Plaha
Initial release20162006200020012018
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsJava, SQLno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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