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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. NebulaGraph vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. NebulaGraph vs. Titan

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.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 multi-model DBMS and application serverA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.intersystems.comdocs.nebula-graph.iogithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperSpotifyInterSystemsVesoft Inc.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20162014199720192012
Current release2018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data modelStrong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infoNebula 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.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replicationCausal Clustering using Raft protocolyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infousing RocksDByes 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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesRole-based access controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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BigchainDBHeroicInterSystems CachéNebulaGraphTitan
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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