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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MaxDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MaxDB vs. RDF4J

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
maxdb.sap.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.heavy.aimaxdb.sap.com/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperSoftmotionsHEAVY.AI, Inc.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20162012201619842004
Current release5.10, January 20227.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC++ and CUDAC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lessLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoRound robinnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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