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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. GridGain vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. GridGain vs. RDFox

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeospock.comwww.gridgain.comwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GeoSpockGridGain Systems, Inc.Oxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2016201220072017
Current release2.0, September 2019GridGain 8.5.16.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonJava, JavascriptJava, C++, .NetC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes 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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes (replicated cache)replication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACID
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsRoles, resources, and access types

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