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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Firebird vs. Heroic vs. Newts vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebird vs. Heroic vs. Newts vs. Tibero

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  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 ElasticSearchTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicopennms.github.io/­newtsus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikitechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationSpotifyOpenNMS GroupTmaxSoft
Initial release20162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201420142003
Current release5.0.0, January 20246, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++JavaJavaC and Assembler
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoyes
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 REST
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
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.nonono infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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