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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. MonetDB vs. Trafodion vs. TypeDB vs. XTDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query languageA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.monetdb.orgtrafodion.apache.orgtypedb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmltypedb.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMonetDB BVApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPVaticleJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20162004201420162019
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20232.3.0, February 20192.26.3, January 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC++, JavaJavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetAll JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesShardingSharding infoby using Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes, via HBaseMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandrayes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeperno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno infosubstituted by the relationship featureno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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BigchainDBMonetDBTrafodionTypeDB infoformerly named GraknXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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