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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. Galaxybase vs. H2 vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. Galaxybase vs. H2 vs. RavenDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSGraph 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
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.iogalaxybase.comwww.h2database.comravendb.net
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Thomas MuellerHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20162016201720052010
Current releaseNov 20, November 20212.2.220, July 20235.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoC and JavaJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeStrong typed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
.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
Go
Java
Python
Java.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined procedures and functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via RaftWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, 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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoPlanned for future releasesRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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