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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Google Cloud Spanner

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Google Cloud Spanner

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  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.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblazegraph.comgalaxybase.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablecloud.google.com/­spanner
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwiki.blazegraph.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docs
DeveloperBlazegraphChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司GoogleGoogle
Initial release20162006201720152017
Current release2.1.5, March 2019Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC and Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoRDF literal typesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languagenonoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined procedures and functionsnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-row operationsACID infoStrict serializable isolation
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Role-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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