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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Graph Engine vs. openGemini vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Graph Engine vs. openGemini vs. TinkerGraph

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#375  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblazegraph.comwww.graphengine.iowww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
tinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwiki.blazegraph.comwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualdocs.opengemini.org/­guide
DeveloperBlazegraphMicrosoftHuawei and openGemini community
Initial release20162006201020222009
Current release2.1.5, March 20191.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJava.NET and CGoJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
.NETLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoRDF literal typesyesInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringyes
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 indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languagenoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesoptional
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)Administrators and common users accountsno

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