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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Cachelot.io vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Description

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

In-memory caching system

Cloud 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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#64	Key-value stores

Score	8.96
Rank	#48	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

cachelot.io

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Google

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2017

2015

Current release

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

rights management via user accounts

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