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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Interbase vs. OpenEdge vs. Realm vs. SWC-DB

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.progress.com/­openedgerealm.iogithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperEmbarcaderoProgress Software CorporationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Alex Kashirin
Initial release20161984198420142020
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 2019OpenEdge 12.2, March 20200.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possibleyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersyesyesyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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.yesnoyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groupsyes

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