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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Memgraph vs. RethinkDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Memgraph vs. RethinkDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 Neo4jDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.commemgraph.comrethinkdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestmemgraph.com/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperMemgraph LtdThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017VelocityDB Inc
Initial release2016201720092011
Current release2.4.1, August 20207.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++C++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infowith snapshot isolationAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers, roles and permissionsyes infousers and table-level permissionsBased on Windows Authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
BigchainDBMemgraphRethinkDBVelocityDB
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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