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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Databend vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Trafodion

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.30
Rank#287  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasetrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.databend.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasetrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperDatabend LabsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2016202120122014
Current release1.0.59, April 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonRustC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxhosted
Linux
macOS
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'Java Stored Procedures
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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