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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. HugeGraph vs. MonetDB vs. SurrealDB

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

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.monetdb.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesthugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBaiduMonetDB BVSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2016201820042022
Current release0.9Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaCRust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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