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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Memcached

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsIn-memory caching systemCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcachelot.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.memcached.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release2016201520122003
Current release1.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDBnoyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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