DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. PieCloudDB vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google BigQuery vs. PieCloudDB vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.openpie.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

firebase.google.com/docs/database

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Google

OpenPie

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

2017

Current release

2.1, January 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Roles, resources, and access types

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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