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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. gStore vs. Heroic vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. gStore vs. Heroic vs. Lovefield

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#359  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comen.gstore.cngithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesten.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperSpotifyGoogle
Initial release2016201620142014
Current release1.2, November 20232.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
TriggersnoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedno

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