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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. GigaSpaces vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. GigaSpaces vs. TypeDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsTypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Graph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.02
Rank#370  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#197  Overall
#33  Document stores
#7  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#9  Object oriented DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.gigaspaces.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmltypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperFairCom CorporationGigaspaces TechnologiesVaticle
Initial release2016197920002016
Current releaseV3, October 202015.5, September 20202.28.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonANSI C, C++Java, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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.noyesno infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesno
Triggersyesyes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingno
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Synchronous replication via raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLnono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Role-based access controlyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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BigchainDBFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEGigaSpacesTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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