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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. CockroachDB vs. Dgraph vs. H2

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Blueflood vs. CockroachDB vs. Dgraph vs. H2

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comblueflood.iowww.cockroachlabs.comdgraph.iowww.h2database.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdgraph.io/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.html
DeveloperRackspaceCockroach LabsDgraph Labs, Inc.Thomas Mueller
Initial release20162013201520162005
Current release23.1.1, May 20232.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaGoGoJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemedynamic schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJDBCGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication using RAFTSynchronous replication via RaftWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoRole-based access controlno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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