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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. Graph Engine vs. searchxml vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.graphengine.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Microsoft

informationpartners gmbh

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2016

2013

2010

2015

1987

Current release

1.0

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

.NET and C

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

.NET

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Source-replica replication

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

multiple readers, single writer

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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