DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. MonetDB vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. MonetDB vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

dgraph.io

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.monetdb.org

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

dgraph.io/docs

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

InterSystems

MonetDB BV

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

2018

2004

1995

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Synchronous replication via Raft

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Planned for future releases

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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