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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. Graph Engine vs. PostGIS vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.graphengine.io

postgis.net

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

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Softmotions

Microsoft

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

2005

2009

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

.NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

optional

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

based on PostgreSQL

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