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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine vs. HugeGraph vs. Ignite vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine vs. HugeGraph vs. Ignite vs. TimesTen

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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 engineA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
ignite.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualhugegraph.apache.org/­docsapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperMicrosoftBaiduApache Software FoundationOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20162010201820151998
Current release0.9Apache Ignite 2.611 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePython.NET and CJavaC++, Java, .Net
Server operating systemsLinux.NETLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)PL/SQL
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparkyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
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 storageyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers, roles and permissionsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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