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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

memgraph.com

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

kairosdb.github.io

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2016

2013

2017

2014

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

simple password-based access control

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing models

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