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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. Fauna vs. Heroic vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. Fauna vs. Heroic vs. searchxml

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.iofauna.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docsdocs.fauna.comspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Fauna, Inc.Spotifyinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20162016201420142015
Current release1.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonGoScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes infoon the application server
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replicationyesyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnomultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoPlanned for future releasesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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