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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebird vs. GeoMesa vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperFirebird FoundationCCRi and othersPercona
Initial release20162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20142015
Current release5.0.0, January 20245.0.0, May 20243.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++ScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoJavaScript
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonedepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and roles

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