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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Dragonfly vs. EJDB vs. Firebolt

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Dragonfly vs. EJDB vs. Firebolt

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from Clickhouse
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebolt.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.firebolt.io
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSoftmotionsFirebolt Analytics Inc.
Initial release2016202320122020
Current release1.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGPLv2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languagePythonC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxserver-lesshosted
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocolin-process shared library.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanono
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnonedepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoRead/Write Locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesPassword-based authenticationno

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