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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Lovefield vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. JanusGraph vs. Lovefield vs. TerminusDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comjanusgraph.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldterminusdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.janusgraph.orggithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusGoogleDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2016201720142018
Current release0.6.3, February 20232.1.12, February 201711.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaScriptProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)noneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes
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 RethinkDByes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServernoRole-based access control

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