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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. PouchDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#216  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.91
Rank#94  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.commemgraph.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasepouchdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestmemgraph.com/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlpouchdb.com/­guides
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperMemgraph LtdMicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release2016201720102012
Current releaseV127.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication using RAFTyes, with always 3 replicas availableMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infowith snapshot isolationACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
BigchainDBMemgraphMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzurePouchDB
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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