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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  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.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasemachbase.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasemachbase.com/­dbmshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MachbaseSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release2016201220131992
Current releaseV8.0, August 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonC
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
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
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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