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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Stardog vs. TypeDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Stardog vs. TypeDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query languageA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.stardog.comtypedb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.stardog.comtypedb.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperStardog-UnionVaticleVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2016201020162011
Current release7.3.0, May 20202.26.3, January 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaC#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Servernono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javanono
Triggersyes infovia event handlersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoby using CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeperno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsno infosubstituted by the relationship featureno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressBased on Windows Authentication
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BigchainDBStardogTypeDB infoformerly named GraknVelocityDB
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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