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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GraphDB vs. HBase vs. PieCloudDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score3.32
Rank#91  Overall
#6  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.25
Rank#304  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.ontotext.comhbase.apache.orgwww.openpie.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperOntotextApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOpenPie
Initial release201620002008
Current release10.4, October 20232.3.4, January 20212.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnostored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilityyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functions
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoConstraint checkingnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard
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BigchainDBGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMHBasePieCloudDB
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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