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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. PieCloudDB vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.dolphindb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.openpie.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Google

acquired by Google 2014

OpenPie

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2016

2018

2012

2017

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.1, January 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes, based on authentication and database rules

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Roles, resources, and access types

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

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