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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HugeGraph vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. PostGIS

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlpostgis.net
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014BaiduOracle
Initial release20162012201820112005
Current release0.923.3, December 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptionalyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Groovy
Java
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'asynchronous Gremlin script jobsnouser defined functions
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparkwith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID
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.yesyes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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