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System Properties Comparison Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. chDB vs. Firebird vs. MaxDB

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Name

Description

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

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

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.firebirdsql.org

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

doc.chdb.io

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

DGraph Labs

Firebird Foundation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2017

2016

2023

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

1984

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

server-less

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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