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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 vs. ITTIA vs. JaguarDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 vs. ITTIA vs. JaguarDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  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.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.ittia.comwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2www.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014IBMITTIA L.L.C.DataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release201620121983 infohost version20072015
Current release12.1, October 20168.73.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++C and C++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yesyesno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDatabase file passwordsrights management via user accounts

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