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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. CouchDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. SpaceTime vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. CouchDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. SpaceTime vs. TigerGraph

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcouchdb.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerFairCom CorporationMireo
Initial release20162005197920202017
Current release3.3.3, December 2023V3, October 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache version 2commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonErlangANSI C, C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoANSI SQL queriesA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#
C++
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++noyes
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0File partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infowhen using SQLnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.yesRole-based access control

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