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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Hazelcast vs. Lovefield vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Hazelcast vs. Lovefield vs. Trafodion

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 engineA widely adopted in-memory data gridEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.graphengine.iohazelcast.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperMicrosoftHazelcastGoogleApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162010200820142014
Current release5.3.6, November 20232.1.12, February 20172.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePython.NET and CJavaJavaScriptC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux.NETAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
JavaScriptAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyes infoEventsUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infoReplicated Mapnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 storageyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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