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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. Firebird vs. H2 vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. Firebird vs. H2 vs. Sequoiadb

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.iowww.firebirdsql.orgwww.h2database.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Firebird FoundationThomas MuellerSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release201620162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20052013
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsJavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno infoPlanned for future releasesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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