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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Galaxybase vs. Memcached

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegalaxybase.comwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release2016201220172003
Current releaseNov 20, November 20211.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC and JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'user defined procedures and functionsno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
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
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno
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
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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