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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Lovefield vs. MaxDB vs. Yanza

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmaxdb.sap.comyanza.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Yanza
Initial release20162012201419842015
Current release2.1.12, February 20177.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyesno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesUsing read-only observersyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replicationnone
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
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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