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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. DolphinDB vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. DolphinDB vs. LokiJS vs. MarkLogic vs. Titan

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.In-memory JavaScript DBMSOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dolphindb.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.progress.com/­marklogicgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncMarkLogic Corp.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20162018201420012012
Current releasev2.00.4, January 202211.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community version availableOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++JavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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 viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL92no
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JavaScript APIJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes, with Range Indexes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAdministrators, Users, GroupsnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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