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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cassandra vs. JanusGraph vs. Newts vs. NuoDB

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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 Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	101.89
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Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

cassandra.apache.org

janusgraph.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.janusgraph.org

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

OpenNMS Group

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2008

2017

2014

2013

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

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

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

based on Cassandra

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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