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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hazelcast vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hazelcast vs. RDFox

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.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 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
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  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.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehazelcast.comwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014HazelcastOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20161983201220082017
Current release19.4.1, November 20215.3.6, November 20236.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
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 infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategy
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
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
PHPJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited 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 nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yes 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 systemEventual 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 datanoyesone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlRoles, resources, and access types

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