DBMS > BigchainDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. MongoDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. MongoDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	410.24
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#345	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

greptime.com

www.mongodb.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.greptime.com

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

Developer

Greptime Inc.

MongoDB, Inc

Initial release

2016

2022

2009

2023

Current release

7.0.5, January 2024

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Rust

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

yes

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

TinkerPop 3

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

Groovy
Java

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

optional, enabled by default

optional

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Built around the flexible document data model and unified API, MongoDB is a developer...
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Typical application scenarios

For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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AI-enriched intelligent apps (Continental, Telefonica, Iron Mountain) Internet of...
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Key customers

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metrics

GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Hundreds of millions downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month...
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Licensing and pricing models

GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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MongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
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