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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebird vs. Hazelcast vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.firebirdsql.org

hazelcast.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Hazelcast

TempoIQ

Initial release

2016

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2008

2012

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control

simple authentication-based access control

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