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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Coveo vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Infobright vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Coveo vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Infobright vs. LokiJS

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  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 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.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.11
Rank#118  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.coveo.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.coveo.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoretechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperCoveoGoogleIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release20162012201720052014
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonCJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes, with Cloud Functionsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflownoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesno

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