DBMS > BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. Firebolt vs. gStore vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. Firebolt vs. gStore vs. HBase

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Primary database model

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

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.firebolt.io

en.gstore.cn

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.firebolt.io

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Softmotions

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

2016

2012

2020

2016

2008

Current release

1.2, November 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Python

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

hosted

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Cloudera's HBase PaaS offering now supports Complex Transactions
11 August 2021, Krishna Maheshwari (sponsor)

Why is Hadoop not listed in the DB-Engines Ranking?
13 May 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

An Introduction to BigchainDB, a Popular Blockchain Database
17 September 2020, Open Source For You

Exploring the 10 BEST Python Libraries for Blockchain Applications
9 September 2023, DataDrivenInvestor

Blockchain Database Startup BigchainDB Raises €3 Million
27 September 2016, CoinDesk

Using BigchainDB: A Database with Blockchain Characteristics
20 January 2022, Open Source For You

Capgemini and Ascribe Build Blockchain Project for Banking Loyalty Rewards
7 June 2016, Bitcoin Magazine

provided by Google News

10 Best Data Pipeline Tools of 2024 to Boost Your Productivity
20 February 2024, Datamation

Cloud data unicorn Firebolt fires dozens of employees
7 September 2022, CTech

Firebolt, a data warehouse startup, raises $100M at a $1.4B valuation for faster, cheaper analytics on large data sets
26 January 2022, TechCrunch

Firebolt vs Snowflake | Data Warehousing Platform Comparison
1 April 2022, TechRepublic

Firebolt, Israeli Cloud Data Warehouse Startup Forklifts Forward
5 January 2021, Forbes

provided by Google News

Share this page