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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. mSQL vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

dgraph.io

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

dgraph.io/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

1994

2000

Current release

4.4, October 2021

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

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