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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. MarkLogic vs. openGemini vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#216	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	4.15
Rank	#70	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#8	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.progress.com/marklogic

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

docs.opengemini.org/guide

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

MarkLogic Corp.

Huawei and openGemini community

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2016

2001

2022

2010

Current release

11.0, December 2022

1.1, July 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Administrators and common users accounts

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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Conferences, events and webinars

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Progress MarkLogic World
Washington DC, 23-25 September 2024

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