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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. GridGain

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. GridGain

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.dbase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.gridgain.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasefirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperAsthon TateGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleGridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release20161979201220172007
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
dBase proprietary IDEJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.limited functionality with using 'rules'yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes, with Cloud Functionsyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replicationyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoUsing Cloud Dataflowyes (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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSyesyesACID
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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Security Hooks for custom implementations

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