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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebird vs. Heroic vs. NCache vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

www.firebirdsql.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Firebird Foundation

Spotify

Alachisoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2016

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2014

2005

2012

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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