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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. HugeGraph vs. MonetDB

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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 fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

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

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Softmotions

Baidu

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2016

2012

2018

2004

Current release

0.9

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

Linux
macOS
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

edges in graph

yes

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

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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