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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. GridGain vs. NebulaGraph

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Name

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.73
Rank	#213	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.32
Rank	#151	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#25	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	1.61
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.gridgain.com

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Vesoft Inc.

Initial release

2016

2007

2019

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial, open source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Strong typed schema

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

yes

using RocksDB

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
Security Hooks for custom implementations

Role-based access control

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