DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. Microsoft SQL Server 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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.h2database.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Thomas Mueller

Microsoft

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2016

2012

2005

1989

2017

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

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.

yes

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

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Roles, resources, and access types

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