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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Hypertable vs. JanusGraph vs. Splunk vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Hypertable vs. JanusGraph vs. Splunk vs. Yaacomo

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Analytics Platform for Big DataOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeGraph DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comjanusgraph.orgwww.splunk.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusSplunk Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20162009201720032009
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20160.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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 indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Shardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor on file system levelyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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