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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. Dragonfly vs. H2 vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. Dragonfly vs. H2 vs. Sequoiadb

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.h2database.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docswww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.DragonflyDB team and community contributorsThomas MuellerSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20162016202320052013
Current release1.0, March 20232.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freescheme-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Java.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuaJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsJavaScript
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoPlanned for future releasesPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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