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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine vs. HugeGraph vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine vs. HugeGraph vs. PostGIS

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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 DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
postgis.net
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualhugegraph.apache.org/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperMicrosoftBaidu
Initial release2016201020182005
Current release0.93.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePython.NET and CJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux.NETLinux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
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 storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers, roles and permissionsyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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