DBMS > Altibase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Widely used RDBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.oracle.com/database

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Altibase

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oracle

Percona

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

1999

2012

1980

2015

2009

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

23c, September 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

limited functionality with using 'rules'

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

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