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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. Ehcache vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Citus vs. Ehcache vs. TigerGraph

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.citusdata.comwww.ehcache.orgwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.citusdata.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AG
Initial release2016201020092017
Current release8.1, December 20183.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonCJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JCacheGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta Server
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes infoby using Terracotta Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control

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