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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Memcached vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Access vs. RDF4J

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRDF store
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.memcached.orgmemgraph.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessrdf4j.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikimemgraph.com/­docsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessrdf4j.org/­documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMemgraph LtdMicrosoftSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20162003201719922004
Current release1.6.25, March 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes infoRDF Schemas
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolBolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replication using RAFTnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infowith snapshot isolationACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBnoyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers, roles and permissionsno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no
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