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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Firebolt vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Firebolt vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. OpenTSDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblazegraph.comwww.firebolt.iocloud.google.com/­bigtableopentsdb.net
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.firebolt.iocloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperBlazegraphFirebolt Analytics Inc.Googlecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20162006202020152011
Current release2.1.5, March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoRDF literal typesyesnonumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageyesnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesdepending on storage layerInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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