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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. HarperDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2GIS vs. HarperDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  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.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Spatial extension of H2Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Wide column store
Spatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.86
Rank#210  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.79
Rank#222  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score3.86
Rank#90  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#7  Wide column stores
Score0.08
Rank#360  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#255  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblazegraph.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.h2gis.orgwww.harperdb.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwiki.blazegraph.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.harperdb.io/­docs
DeveloperBlazegraphGoogleCNRSHarperDB
Initial release20162006201520132017
Current release2.1.5, March 20193.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoextended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infofree community edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaNode.js
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesdynamic schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoRDF literal typesnoyesyes infoJSON data types
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languagenoyesSQL-like data manipulation statements
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infobased on H2Custom Functions infosince release 3.1
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyes infobased on H2yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be defined
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDAtomic execution of specific operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes, using LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
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)yes infobased on H2Access rights for users and roles

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