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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. ToroDB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCloud 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.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBasePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreopentsdb.netgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoreopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperGooglecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTeradata8Kdata
Initial release20162017201120052016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsnoR packages
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBaseShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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