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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. Trafodion

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­techfort/­LokiJStrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtechfort.github.io/­LokiJStrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Circonus LLC.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162016201720142014
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20182.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoC and C++JavaScriptC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes
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 indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HTTP APIJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScriptJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via Raftconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoPlanned for future releasesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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