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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. chDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HBase vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. chDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HBase vs. RDFox

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonchDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouseCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#376  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­chdb-io/­chdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehbase.apache.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdoc.chdb.iofirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20162023201220082017
Current release2.3.4, January 20216.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-lesshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)nonono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoCoprocessors in Java
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
replication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACRoles, resources, and access types

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