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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Heroic vs. openGemini vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Heroic vs. openGemini vs. Realm

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  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 engineTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#375  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
realm.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.opengemini.org/­guiderealm.io/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftSpotifyHuawei and openGemini communityRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20162010201420222014
Current release1.1, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePython.NET and CJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux.NETLinux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnononoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAdministrators and common users accountsyes

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