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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. Quasardb vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. Quasardb vs. Titan

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.comquasar.aigithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestorigodb.com/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­mastergithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et alquasardbAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release201619942009 infounder the name LiveDB20092012
Current release4.4, October 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC#C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes
Triggersnoyes infoDomain Eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infoconsistent hashingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoby using LevelDByes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoRole based authorizationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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