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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. searchxml vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. searchxml vs. SQream DB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application servera GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssqream.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Spotifyinformationpartners gmbhSQream Technologies
Initial release20162016201420152017
Current release1.02022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoJavaC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoon the application serveruser defined functions in Python
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via Raftyesyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnomultiple readers, single writerACID
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoPlanned for future releasesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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