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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RDFox

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasespotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014SpotifyMicrosoftOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20162012201420122017
Current release6.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.replication 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
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnooptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesRoles, resources, and access types

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