DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

In-memory caching system

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

cachelot.io

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

firebase.google.com/docs/database

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

SiteWhere

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2015

2012

2010

2000

Current release

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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