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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Realm

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerOracles in-memory data grid solutionA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.ioazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencerealm.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencerealm.io/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.MicrosoftOracleRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20162016201020072014
Current releaseV1214.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonGoC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnoyesyes infoLive Eventsyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via Raftyes, with always 3 replicas availableyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationyes

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