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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebird vs. PieCloudDB vs. RocksDB

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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

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Firebird Foundation

OpenPie

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2013

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

2.1, January 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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