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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. RavenDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbravendb.net
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.SoftmotionsHibernating Rhinos
Initial release2016201620122010
Current release5.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonGoCC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
in-process shared library.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via RaftnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoPlanned for future releasesnoAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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