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DBMS > Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RDFox

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityCloud-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 modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.22
Rank#320  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperDGraph LabsCognitectGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Oxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20172016201220122017
Current release1.0.7075, December 20236.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoPythonJava, ClojureC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peers
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesRoles, resources, and access types

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