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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. MonetDB vs. SwayDB vs. TimesTen vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. MonetDB vs. SwayDB vs. TimesTen vs. TinkerGraph

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#345  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.monetdb.orgswaydb.simer.auwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperMonetDB BVSimer PlahaOracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20162004201819982009
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 2023Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RnoPL/SQLno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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