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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. KeyDB vs. Memgraph vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

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

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.80
Rank	#219	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

memgraph.com

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.keydb.dev

memgraph.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

Social network pages

Developer

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Memgraph Ltd

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2016

2019

2017

1995

Current release

8.3.0, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Free license available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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 and ACL

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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