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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Brytlyt vs. Cassandra vs. Cubrid vs. Firebase Realtime Database

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Name

Description

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

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#187	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

brytlyt.io

cassandra.apache.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.brytlyt.io

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

cubrid.org/manuals

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

Brytlyt

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Initial release

2016

2008

2012

Current release

5.0, August 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

11.0, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Java Stored Procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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