DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. JSqlDb vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. JSqlDb vs. VelocityDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.hawkular.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Google

Community supported by Red Hat

Konrad von Backstrom

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2016

2017

2014

2018

2011

Current release

0.8, December 2018

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

.Net

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

using RocksDB

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Based on Windows Authentication

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