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DBMS > BigObject vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. JanusGraph vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. JanusGraph vs. NCache vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeGraph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasejanusgraph.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iofirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.janusgraph.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusAlachisoftOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20152012201720051984
Current release0.6.3, February 20235.3.3, April 20247.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLualimited functionality with using 'rules'yesno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)yes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
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BigObjectFirebase Realtime DatabaseJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanNCacheOracle Rdb
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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