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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. Dgraph vs. Google BigQuery

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Name

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Primary database model

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	#36	Document stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#225	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

dgraph.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

dgraph.io/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Google

Initial release

2016

2013

2016

2010

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

Planned for future releases

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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