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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hazelcast vs. RDFox

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A widely adopted in-memory data gridHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.enterprisedb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehazelcast.comwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperEnterpriseDBGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014HazelcastOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20162005201220082017
Current release14, December 20215.3.6, November 20236.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonCJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategy
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.limited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Services
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoEvents
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationyes infoReplicated Mapreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
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 or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlRoles, resources, and access types

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