DBMS > BigchainDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Interbase

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Name

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Primary database model

Document store

Event Store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.eventstore.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

developers.eventstore.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Event Store Limited

Google

Embarcadero

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

1984

Current release

21.2, February 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Interbase Change Views

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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