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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Coveo vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OrientDB vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Coveo vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OrientDB vs. RDFox

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.11
Rank#118  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.coveo.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseorientdb.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.coveo.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperCoveoGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20162012201220102017
Current release3.2.29, March 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language, no joinsno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'Java, Javascript
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replicationreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableRoles, resources, and access types

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