DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Prometheus vs. RDFox vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Prometheus vs. RDFox vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

prometheus.io

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

firebase.google.com/docs/database

prometheus.io/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oxford Semantic Technologies

SAP

Initial release

2016

2012

2015

2017

2010

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

by Federation

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

none

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Roles, resources, and access types

yes

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