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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HugeGraph vs. MonetDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.monetdb.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Baidu

MonetDB BV

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2018

2004

2014

Current release

0.9

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding via remote tables

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

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

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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