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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Manticore Search vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Manticore Search vs. Titan

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Search engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.iocloud.google.com/­bigtablemanticoresearch.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsmanual.manticoresearch.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.GoogleManticore SoftwareAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20162016201520172012
Current release6.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonGoC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nononoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via RaftInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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