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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine vs. NCache vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.graphengine.io

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2010

2005

2013

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

.NET and C

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

.NET

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

simple password-based access control

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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