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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BigchainDB vs. DataFS vs. EsgynDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.09
Rank#360  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.bigchaindb.comnewdatabase.comwww.esgyn.cnfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestore
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xspfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestore
DeveloperAltibaseMobiland AGEsgynGoogle
Initial release19992016201820152017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.1.263, October 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++PythonC++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxWindowsLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsJava Stored Proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
Triggersyesno, except callback-events from server when changes happenednoyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingProprietary Sharding systemShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesUsing Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesWindows-Profilefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

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