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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dolt vs. MongoDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Typesense

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Name

Description

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

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.mongodb.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

typesense.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.dolthub.com

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

typesense.org/docs

Developer

DoltHub Inc

MongoDB, Inc

Initial release

2016

2018

2009

2015

Current release

6.0.7, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

Groovy
Java

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

optional, enabled by default

optional

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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