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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. openGemini vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2 vs. openGemini vs. RDFox

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonopenGemini  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalabilityHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#213  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score13.43
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score7.10
Rank#47  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#386  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#295  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2database.comwww.opengemini.org
github.com/­openGemini
www.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.opengemini.org/­guidedocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Thomas MuellerHuawei and openGemini communityOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20162012200520222017
Current release2.2.220, July 20231.1, July 20236.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesInteger, Float, Boolean, Stringyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyesreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAdministrators and common users accountsRoles, resources, and access types

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