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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine vs. OpenSearch vs. TerminusDB

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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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

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

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.graphengine.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

opensearch.org/docs/latest

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2010

2021

2018

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

.NET and C

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

.NET

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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 journaling

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

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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