DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. OpenQM vs. Snowflake vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. OpenQM vs. Snowflake vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.85
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Score	0.39
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	#39	Key-value stores

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.snowflake.com

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

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Cloudflare

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2018

1993

2014

2009

Current release

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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 can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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