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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HBase vs. OpenEdge

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EJDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. HBase vs. OpenEdge

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableApplication development environment with integrated database management system
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorehbase.apache.orgwww.progress.com/­openedge
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorehbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latest
DeveloperSoftmotionsGoogleApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetProgress Software Corporation
Initial release20162012201720081984
Current release2.3.4, January 2021OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonCJava
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lesshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infoclose to SQL 92
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoUsing Cloud Dataflowyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
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 controlyesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUsers and groups

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