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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. RDFox

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineSpatial extension of H2Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.graphengine.iowww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homespotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperMicrosoftCNRSSpotifyOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20162010201320142017
Current release6.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePython.NET and CJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux.NETLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2no
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infobased on H2yesreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infobased on H2Roles, resources, and access types

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