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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Graph Engine vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

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

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Document store

Wide column store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

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

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.graphengine.io

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.datastax.com

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

DataStax

Microsoft

Percona

Initial release

2016

2011

2010

2015

Current release

6.8, April 2020

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

.NET

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantages

Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenarios

Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customers

Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metrics

Among the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing models

Annual subscription
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