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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Firebird vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebird vs. Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. SQream DB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroichsqldb.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsspotify.github.io/­heroichsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSpotifySQream Technologies
Initial release20162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420012017
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.7.2, June 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++JavaJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoJava, SQLuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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