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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Riak TS

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Name

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.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	8.96
Rank	#48	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Google

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2017

2015

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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.

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