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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Immudb vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Immudb vs. LokiJS

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#305  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
github.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docsdocs.heavy.aidocs.immudb.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Codenotary
Initial release20162016201620202014
Current release5.10, January 20221.2.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoC++ and CUDAGoJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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 infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesSharding infoRound robinShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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