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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Heroic vs. JanusGraph

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Heroic vs. JanusGraph

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicjanusgraph.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.janusgraph.org
DeveloperMicrosoftSpotifyLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius
Initial release20162013201020142017
Current release0.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGo.NET and CJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
.NETLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
GoC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 storageyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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