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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Heroic vs. OpenTenBase

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

blazegraph.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

wiki.blazegraph.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

Developer

Blazegraph

Spotify

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Initial release

2016

2006

2014

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

BigchainDB • • The blockchain database.
4 February 2016, bigchaindb.com

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13 February 2016, CoinReport

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