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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. OpenTSDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. OpenTSDB vs. Titan

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
opentsdb.netgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroichugegraph.apache.org/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperSpotifyBaiducurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20162014201820112012
Current release0.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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 indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP API
Telnet API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infobased on HBaseyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparknoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers, roles and permissionsnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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