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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Infobright vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Infobright vs. LokiJS

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesCloud 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.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#213  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score6.53
Rank#54  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#201  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score0.38
Rank#268  Overall
#43  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.combigobject.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.bigobject.iofirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoretechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.GoogleIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release20162015201720052014
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonCJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflownoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesno

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