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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine vs. STSdb vs. TinkerGraph vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Graph Engine vs. STSdb vs. TinkerGraph vs. Trafodion

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 engineKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APITransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.graphengine.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4tinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlintrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperMicrosoftSTS Soft SCApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20162010201120092014
Current release4.0.8, September 20152.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePython.NET and CC#JavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux.NETWindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client APITinkerPop 3ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
Java
Groovy
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
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 storageyesoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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