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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RDFox vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. RDFox vs. SurrealDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.oxfordsemantic.techsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.oxfordsemantic.techsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCognitectGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Oxford Semantic TechnologiesSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20162012201220172022
Current release1.0.6735, June 20236.0, Septermber 2022v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, ClojureC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
Java
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'
TriggersBy using transaction functionsCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peers
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesRoles, resources, and access typesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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