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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS vs. Titan vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Splice Machine vs. SQL.JS vs. Titan vs. Yanza

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  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.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkPort of SQLite to JavaScriptTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comsplicemachine.comsql.js.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanyanza.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestsplicemachine.com/­how-it-workssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperSplice MachineAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersAurelius, owned by DataStaxYanza
Initial release20162014201220122015
Current release3.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
JavaScript APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
JavaScriptClojure
Java
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoJavanoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backendsnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverno

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