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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. FileMaker vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Machbase Neo

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  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.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series 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
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasemachbase.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasemachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Machbase
Initial release2016198320122013
Current release19.4.1, November 2021V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonC
Server operating systemsLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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 formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
PHPJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
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 14selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlyessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple password-based access control

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