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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IRONdb vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. IRONdb vs. Yaacomo

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed 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.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasecloud.google.com/­datastorewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/yaacomo.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleCirconus LLC.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20162012200820172009
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedLinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, details hereyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'using Google App Engineyes, in Lua
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication using Paxosconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
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 depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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