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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. GeoSpock vs. GridDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. GeoSpock vs. GridDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational 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
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblazegraph.comgeospock.comgriddb.net
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwiki.blazegraph.comdocs.griddb.net
DeveloperBlazegraphGeoSpockToshiba Corporation
Initial release201620062013
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.0, September 20195.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJava, JavascriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp
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 indexesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID at container level
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Access rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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BigchainDBBlazegraphGeoSpockGridDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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