DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Cassandra vs. Graph Engine vs. RDFox vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cassandra vs. Graph Engine vs. RDFox vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Document store

Wide column store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

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

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

cassandra.apache.org

www.graphengine.io

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2016

2008

2010

2017

2009

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

.NET and C

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

.NET

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

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

optional

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Roles, resources, and access types

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