DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Softmotions

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2012

2016

2012

2017

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

none

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Roles, resources, and access types

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