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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SiteWhere

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsIn-memory caching systemCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.20
Rank#321  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
#143  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.bigchaindb.comcachelot.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasesitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014SiteWhere
Initial release20162016201520122010
Current release2.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCPythonC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnolimited functionality with using 'rules'
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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