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DBMS > BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. JanusGraph vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. JanusGraph vs. Transbase

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsCloud 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.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.ehcache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorejanusgraph.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.ehcache.org/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.janusgraph.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGGoogleLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20152009201720171987
Current release3.10.0, March 20220.6.3, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyesyes
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes, with Cloud Functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replicationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflowyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceyesACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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