DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Titan

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Name

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.

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#253	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

rocksdb.org

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Spotify

Percona

Facebook, Inc.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2016

2014

2015

2013

2012

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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